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  • Worker Story

    Deus é meu Despertador

    Série Vida dos Trabalhadores. Dona Maria Brás foi uma força incansável na luta das cooperativas de catadores brasileiros contra a perseguição...

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  • Briefs

    Recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – An Overview of Inclusive Programming

    Brazil is one of the world’s most progressive countries in integrating waste pickers in solid waste management systems, and Belo Horizonte...

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  • Journal Articles

    Self-Employed Proletarians in an Informal Factory: The Case of Cali’s Garbage DumpWorld Development (Pergamon Press)

    Summary: This paper presents data on the organization of work among the scavengers on the garbage dump in the city of Cali, Colombia. Garbage...

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  • Journal Articles

    Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approachDevelopment in Practice

    Abstract: This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in...

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  • Research Reports

    Co-operatives and Workers in the Informal Economy: Possibilities and Challenges

    Co-operatives and Workers in the Informal Economy: Possibilities and Challenges” is an initial study of co-operatives and their relationships...

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  • Research Reports

    Estudio en seguridad industrial y salud ocupacional para el caso del trabajo del reciclador en la calle

    La producción de desechos y basuras es el resultado ignorado de un modelo de desarrollo capitalista, altamente extractivista para los países...

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  • Research Reports

    2013 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean.

    Twenty years after the Labour Overview was first published, we analyze the challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean today. We also...

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  • Research Reports

    Gênero e Meio Ambiente: A dupla Jornada de Injustiça Ambiental em uma Cooperativa de Mulheres de Catadoras de Materiais Recicláveis.

    em português   ABSTRACTS:   English VALLIN, Isabella de Carvalho. Gender and Environment: the double burden of environmental injustice in...

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  • Journal Articles

    World at work: Brazilian ragpickers

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  • Research Reports

    Measuring informal employment in Mexico

    Seminar for the WIEGO Workshop on Informal Employment in Developed Countries, Cambridge, MA, 31 October – 1 November 2008

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