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Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities
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WIEGO Report on the Policy Environment of Informal Urban Waste Pickers and Artisanal Mine Workers in Colombia
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The Informal Economy in Greater Buenos Aires: A Statistical Profile
This paper interrogates the nature of the informal economy in Greater Buenos Aires. It takes advantage of the existence of a unique dataset,...
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Proceso de integración de los cartoneros de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Del reconocimiento a la gestión de Centros Verdes y la recolección selectiva
En Argentina, y en particular en su Capital Federal (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires / CABA), la problemática asociada a los recolectores...
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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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Informal Sector Training in Jamaica: An assessment
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Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry
From the Executive Summary of the report: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its expanding garment industry pays wages...
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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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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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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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