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Resource Documents
Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries
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Books & Book Chapters
Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade
This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...
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Journal Articles
Informality and Collective Organising: identities, alliances and transnational activism in Africa
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Journal Articles
A Re-Examination of the Urban Informal Sector in West Africa
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Organizing Briefs
Mapping of the Policy Context and Catadores Organizations in Maputo, Mozambique
This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.
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Research Reports
Paid Work, Women’s Empowerment and Inclusive Growth: Transforming the Structures of Constraint
This research paper examines the extent to which the structure of economic opportunities generated by a country’s growth strategies...
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Research Reports
The Improvisers
A report about the number of Kenyan youth joining the informal economy because of the high unemployment rate in the country. A related...
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Organizing Briefs
Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies
This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...
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Research Reports
The Informal Sector in Ghana
From the paper: 80 percent of the Ghanaian workforce is employed in the informal sector. The sector is characterized by underemployment,...
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Journal Articles
When men do women’s work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, GhanaThe Journal of Modern African Studies
Abstract: Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of...
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