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Applying International Labour Standards to the Informal Economy – Chapter 1: Convention 87 – Freedom of Association
To provide workers and workers’ organizations, including unions, the tools to use existing ILO conventions and recommendations creatively...
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Applying International Labour Standards to the Informal Economy – Introduction
To provide workers and workers’ organizations, including unions, the tools to use existing ILO conventions and recommendations creatively...
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PostBuilding Collective Power February 28, 2024Registering Informal Workers in India: e-Shram, an Opportunity Lost?
The launch of e-Shram, a national database of workers who earn a living in the informal economy, holds lessons for implementation going forward...
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PostBuilding Collective Power January 24, 2024Statistics as a Catalyst for Making Women Workers Visible
Renana Jhabvala, co-founder of SEWA and former chair of WIEGO, talks about the historical relationship between both organizations, and the...
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Organizing Briefs‘Whose Law? Our Law!’: Critical Reflections on Legalization, Social Dialogue and Street Vendors’ Organizing in São Paulo
Key Points The institutionalization of social dialogue is an important step towards more just regulation of informal vending, but alone it...
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Organizing BriefsInnovative Legislation in Australia Protects Homeworkers in the Garment and Footwear Sector
Key Points Outworkers in Australia’s Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) industry are known to be particularly vulnerable to exploitation...
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Law & Informality InsightsWaste Pickers and Human Rights in Latin America
This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human...
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PostGlobal Advocacy and Negotiations July 25, 2023Challenging the Boundaries of Labour Law at the Labour Law Research Network Conference
Labour law only “sees” employees. It resists the idea that self-employed workers in the informal economy, such as street vendors and waste...
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PostCollective Bargaining June 13, 2023African Domestic Workers Fighting for Rights and Reclaiming Power
Society is still not valuing domestic workers more than a decade after the International Labour Organization adopted a convention extending...
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Resource DocumentsDecent Work for Domestic Workers: Analyzing the Implementation of C189 in Latin America and the Caribbean
This Resource Document examines the measures that 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries have taken towards implementing C189: Argentina,...
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