Livelihoods

Gender and Globalization: Opportunities and Constraints Faced by Women in the Construction Industry in India

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The Dual Economy Revisited

Paying Waste Pickers for Environmental Services: A Critical Examination of Options Proposed in Brazil

This Brief synthesizes the main conclusions of the research and the methodology proposed by the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic...

Articulating Growth in the Urban Spectrum

Land, Life, and Security: An Interview with Edgardo Garcia, Secretary General of the Association of Farm Workers in Nicaragua

Abstract: This is an interview with Edgardo Garcia, Secretary General of the Association of Farm Workers in Nicaragua and Oscar Berríos from...

SEWU and Sikhula Tips on Organising Informal Workers

Producing Privatization: Re-articulating Race, Gender, Class and Space

Addressing inequality and economic marginalisation

Cape Town: Institute for African Alternatives

Co-optation, Competition and Resistance: State and Street Vendors in Mexico City

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Reconfiguring Space, Mobilizing Livelihood: Street Vending, Legality, and Work in the Philippines

In the Philippines, the liberalization of the country’s economy has meant increasing rural to urban migration and dramatic growth in informal...