Livelihoods

Home-Based Workers and Cities

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.   Abstract: This paper explores the impact of local government...

Waste Pickers Without Frontiers

CSI Guía de acción – Trabajo decente, vida decente para los trabajadores y trabajadoras del hogar

Empleo, salarios y equidad durante la recuperación reciente en la Argentina

Informal Economy: Law and Policy Demands, Lessons from the WIEGO India Pilot Study

In 2008, WIEGO initiated the Law and Informal Economy project, focusing on the legal aspects of helping informal workers with economic opportunity,...

Informality and Collective Organising: identities, alliances and transnational activism in Africa

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What’s Informal About the Informal Sector? Culture and the Construction of Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sin Colchón que Amortigüe la Caída: La Crisis Económica Global y los Trabajadores de la Economía Informal

Report available in English here. Informe disponible en español aquí. Fact Sheet available in English here. Ficha Técnica disponible en español...

The Regularising State

This article discusses a form of informality widely prevalent in small and medium cities in Maharashtra, called gunthewari. It is an examination...

Special Report on the Informal Economy

Report on ILO Recommendation 204 which focuses on “Ending Informality”, and stands for social inclusion, social justice and a...