The Americas

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...

Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças

Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças argumenta que benefícios à maternidade e os serviços de cuidado infantil...

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

‘An area that governs itself ’: Informality, uncertainty and the management of street vending in New York CityPlanning Theory

Laws governing street vending in New York City are confusing, convoluted, at times contradictory and difficult to enforce with any sort of...

Negotiating Formality: Informal Sector, Market, and State in Peru

Social policy and collective action: Unemployed workers, community associations, and protest in Argentina

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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...

Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil

In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited...

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia

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...