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    Fiscal Justice October 30, 2019

    Workers’ rights in informal economies

    A growing movement is helping improve lives and livelihoods for the world’s informal workers, Sally Roever explains in this Open Democracy...

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  • WIEGO in the World Newsletter

      July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

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  • Journal Articles

    The Micro Political Economy of Gains by Unorganised Workers in India

    This review of literature looks at the micro-political mechanisms through which unorganised labour makes gains in wages and conditions of...

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  • Research Reports

    Temporary Help Workers in the U.S. Labor Market

    Summary: The number of jobs in the temporary help services industry reached an all-time high of 2.9 million in May 2015, accounting for 2.4...

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  • Research Reports

    Revisiting CEDAW’s Recommendations: Has anything changed for migrant workers in Israel in the last two years?

    From the paper’s introduction: “Two years ago, in early 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...

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  • Research Reports

    (Re)conceptualizing poverty and informal employment

    Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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  • Journal Articles

    Not to be Taken for Granted: What Informal Waste Pickers Offer the Urban Economy

    WIEGO Waste Sector Specialist Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental...

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  • Journal Articles

    Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat

    Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...

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  • Research Reports

    Delinking and Rethinking Social Protection for Women in Informal Employment? Perspectives from Latin America

    In the Latin America region, women in informal employment struggle to gain access to health, old-age pensions or maternity benefits, because...

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    “God First, Second the Market”: A Case Study of the Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund of Liberia

    This Case Study presents some of the first steps being taken in Liberia, to find solutions to the problems women traders face which normally...

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