The Americas

Research on Informal Work in the U.S.: Emerging Concepts and Measurement

Background memo prepared for the WIEGO Workshop on Informal Employment in Developed Countries, Harvard University, October 31 ‐ November...

Who Gets Formal Sector Jobs: Determinants of Formal-Informal Participation in Brazilian Metropolitan AreasWork and Occupations

Abstract: This study examines the extent to which social factors influence entry into formal or informal sector employment in Brazil. Using...

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...

Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil

This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory...

Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre o cuidado das crianças e trabalhadoras informais de 6 organizações de base (OBs) de trabalhadoras/es pobres

Esta publicação é um resumo de “Nossos filhos não recebem a atenção que merecem”: Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre...

The Roadmap to Sustainable and Inclusive Solid Waste Systems A Tale of two Cities

The chapter is on pages 41-47.

Employment Change and Economic Vulnerability in the US

The Poor Shall Not Remain Small: Broadening Access of the Organized Poor to the Market by Means of Strengthening NPOs Through Constitutional Justice (The Case of the ARB-Colombia)

Paper presented at Global Network of Government Innovators, Ash Institute at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, November...

Informalidad, inseguridad y cohesión social en América Latina

Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...