Theme: Building Collective Power

Waste Pickers Organizing

​ Waste pickers are increasingly motivated to organize and fight for recognition and a place within formal waste management systems. They...

C177: The Homework Convention – It’s Time for Action!

A homeworker in Thailand prepares an order. Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images ReportageOn 20 June 1996, homeworkers around the world scored...

Home-Based Workers Organizing

Without strong organizations, home-based workers cannot access information about employment opportunities, workers’ rights, changing...

IDWF: A Domestic Workers’ Federation is Born!

International Domestic Workers’ Federation

The Campaign for a Domestic Workers’ Convention

History was made on June 16, 2011 when governments, employers and workers from around the world adopted the Convention (C189) and accompanying...

Domestic Workers Organizing

Recent Gains Domestic workers have made great strides in organizing globally in recent years. A growing movement led to the formation of...

Challenges of Organizing Informal Workers

Challenges in organizing the informal workforce can be specific to the sector or local context, but the challenges in this overview are similar...

The History of Organizing Informal Workers

Organizing informal workers has a long history. At the dawn of the industrial capitalist age in the eighteenth-century, the whole economy...

Collective Bargaining in the Informal Economy

Why Organizing Matters

Organizing gives the poorest segments of the working class – those working in the informal economy, and especially women – a way to be seen...