The Americas

Trajectories and Memories – Waste and Citizenship Forums: Unique Experiments of Social Justice and Participatory Governance

Summary of PhD Thesis by Sonia Maria Dias. Full thesis available in Portuguese here.

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...

The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

Earnings Determinants for Self-Employed Women and Men in the Informal Economy: The Case of Bogotá, ColombiaInternational Social Science Review

Informal Markets: Street Vendors in Mexico City.Habitat International

The central question this article addresses is: What are the functions of street vendor organizations? The study of street vending in Mexico...

The unexpected power of informal workers in the public square: A comparison of Mexican and U.S. organizing models

Abstract: Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face...

Reporte de Participante Nacional – Colombia

Taller de Estadísticas del Sector Informal en América Latina (OIT/WIEGO)

Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights

Sociological Inquiry

Abstract: Most research on the informal economy concentrates on how the informal economy operates at the international and regional levels...