All posts in The Americas
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Research Reports
Going Nowhere Fast: Limited Occupational Mobility in the Fast Food Industry
Front-line jobs in the fast food industry—including cooks, cashiers, delivery workers, and other non-managerial positions—rank among the...
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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
Globalization and Rural Food Processing by Andean Women of Peru and Bolivia
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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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