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Research Reports
Resumen Ejectivo – La situación de los derechos humanos de la comunidad recicladora en América Latina: un reclamo urgente por respeto a través de estándares internacionales
El objetivo de este informe es brindar argumentos y herramientas jurídicas que permitan proteger efectivamente los derechos humanos de las...
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Project
WIEGO’s Work with Cooperatives
Cooperatives are an important form of democratic organization and solidarity for informal workers, who come together to gain access to services...
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News
SSE and Cooperatives October 07, 2019Project to help improve working conditions for Mbeubeuss waste pickers
WIEGO and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have launched a joint initiative to work with waste pickers at Mbeubeuss, the largest...
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News
SSE and Cooperatives September 21, 2019Brazilian recyclers take the wheel in door to door collection
In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a new model of selective collection has given informal catadores (recyclers) responsibility for collecting door-to-door...
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Books & Book Chapters
The Self-Employed Women’s Association
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Journal Articles
Organizing the ‘Unorganized’: Varieties of Transnational Trade Union Collaboration and Social Dialogue in Two Indian Cities
Special issue on labor in the global South
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Research Reports
Extending Labor Standards to Informal Workers at the Base of Global Garment Value Chains: New Institutions in the Labor Market
This report presents three examples of emerging institutional arrangements in the labor market from the perspective of the author who works...
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Research Reports
Organising Workers in the Informal Economy: The Experience of the Self Employed Women’s Union, 1994-2004
Abstract:
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Journal Articles
Organizing Informal Workers by Combining Power, Protection, and PoliticsSocial Policy
Summary from article: The number of contingent, casual, irregular workers is rising both in the developed and developing world. In the United...
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Research Reports
Informal Employment, Labour Law and the Challenge of Enforcement
In order to regulate, improve and standarDize informal labor, there is a need for a strategic vision of labor regulation supported by theories,...
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