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Mamuna Mohammed, a head load porter (kayayei), carries bananas through Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana

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    Future of Work

    How the Draft WDR 2019 Got it Wrong: Rethinking and “Relinking” Social Protections for the Future of Work

    The World Bank’s recently released draft of the World Development Report (WDR) 2019 makes a controversial call to delink important social...

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    Livelihoods

    Informal workers and taxes: What “tax justice” looks like from below

    A growing tax justice movement has been exposing the shadowy ways in which elites and large trans-national corporations often avoid paying...

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    Livelihoods

    For Mayors: A Five-Step Guide to including Street Vendors in Global Cities

    By Carlin Carr

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    Livelihoods

    From Mozambique to Mexico, Domestic Workers are Fighting for their Rights — and Telling their Stories

    Domestic workers — those who cook, clean, sweep, and child-mind in private homes across the globe — face unusually challenging circumstances...

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    Livelihoods

    What’s Changed for Domestic Workers since C189? Our Legal Team Unpacks the Progress

    16 June 2011 was a momentous day for domestic workers around the globe. After a long, worker-led struggle, the International Labour Organization...

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    Livelihoods

    Workplace Violence and Harassment: Informal Workers Also Need Protection

    By Karin Pape & Leslie Vryenhoek In city streets and markets across the Global South, street vendors have little protection from harassment,...

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    Livelihoods

    Mobile Money for Member Dues: Can technology transform worker organizations?

    In this article, our Organization and Representation Programme Director, Jane Barrett, tells us about an innovative mobile money dues collection...

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    Livelihoods

    “Take away these tolls”: How Accra’s poorest market workers got their wages back

    By Carlin CarrAccra’s colorful, bustling markets run on the back-breaking labour of some of the city’s poorest and most vulnerable. Goods...

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    Livelihoods

    Local Governments Should Prioritize Health and Safety for Informal Workers

    The deadly factory fire at Rana Plaza five years ago this week sparked global outrage about workers’ safety. The incident in Bangladesh prompted...

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    Livelihoods

    The Truth about How Dakar’s Clothes Get Cleaned

    By Carlin Carr & Gabriella TanvéIn Dakar, Senegal, the city’s dirty laundry doesn’t get cleaned on a spin cycle. Each day, women across...

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