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  • Journal Articles

    Modernist Planning and the Foundations of Urban Violence in Latin AmericaBuilt Environment

    This article suggests that both the origins and responses to urban violence in Latin America have involved some sort of state ordering of...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

    Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal recycling and occupational health in Santo André, Brazil

    Abstract: The collection of recyclables is a widespread activity among urban poor, particularly in countries with large socio-economic disparities....

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  • Working Papers

    Eficiência e Solidariedade nas Associações de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis

    As associações e cooperativas de catadores são formadas a partir da situação de vulnerabilidade social dos seus membros. A maior parte dos...

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  • Research Reports

    El empleo informal en México visto bajo el esquema conceptual OIT- Grupo de Delhi

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  • Journal Articles

    Part-time and Temporary Work: Flexibility for Whom?

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  • Journal Articles

    Working in Large Food Retailers in France and the USA: The Key Role of InstitutionsWork Employment & Society

    Abstract: Despite numerous similarities between the food retail sectors of France and the USA, there are significant contrasts in the jobs,...

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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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