Theme: Building Collective Power

Women Workers and the Politics of Claims-Making in a Globalizing Economy

The paper analyses the evolving politics of claims-making by women workers in the Global South in the context of a globalized economy. It...

Waste Pickers: Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

The following document describes the work of the SEWA’s community workers. This Workers’ Lives essay offers an intimate look at those...

Domestic Household Workers Demand Respect and Our Rights

Domestic Workers Rights Leaflet: Explains why an ILO Convention is needed and the steps and actions to be taken to achieve this. Also available...

Handling the Day-To-Day Problems of Informal Workers (ICC3)

This series of resource books on Organising in the Informal Economy was written in response to requests from unions and associations for...

Resolution on Women Workers in the Informal Economy

Stree Mukti Sanghatana

Stree Mukti Sanghatana works with waste pickers within its waste management program.

Коллективные действия в интересах неформальных работников (Russian)

Создание объединений в неформальном секторе: пособие для организаторов, Выпуск 6

WIEGO: Cooperatives for Informal Workers’ Rights and Sustainable Livelihoods!

Around the world, informal workers are forming cooperatives, pooling their energy, ideas and resources to gain mutual economic, political...

Waste Picking in Africa, Volume 2.1

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