Livelihoods

Slim pickin’s: Supporting waste pickers in the ecological modernization of urban waste management systems

Abstract: Informal sector scavengers or waste pickers have been unrecognized stakeholders on the fringes of the urban waste landscape since...

The Tobacco Industry and Women’s Employment: Old Concerns and New Imperatives

S’organiser dans la rue: une étude des récupérateurs de rue à Cape Town

Un sommaire tiré du rapport de Koni Benson et de Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG)

The ‘right to the city’: Institutional imperatives of a development state

Wages and Incomes in Formal and Informal Sectors in India

Waste and Development – Perspectives from the Ground

While waste pickers provide vital services to their communities, their municipalities and the environment – they generally face very difficult...

2013 World Development Report on Jobs

The 2013 World Development Report on Jobs stresses the role of strong private sector led growth in creating jobs and outlines how jobs that...

Unorganised Sector Workforce in India: Trends, Patterns and Social Security Coverage

Informelle Arbeit global: Informalität als NormalitätWISO-Info

Seiten 19 bis 26 Pages 19 to 26

Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...