All posts in The Americas
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Research Reports
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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Journal Articles
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...
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Research Reports
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...
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Journal Articles
World at work: Brazilian ragpickers
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Books & Book Chapters
Representing the part-time and contingent workforce: Challenges for unions and public policy
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Project Reports
Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries
Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005
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Research Reports
Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain
Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No. 0216
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Working Papers
Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos, Catadores, Participação e Cidadania – Novas Articulações?
This paper traces back the origins of the conceptual framework Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management, and examines how this concept...
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Policy Briefs
Integração de Trabalhadores Informais na Coleta Seletiva de Recicláveis: o Caso de Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Esta nota informativa traz uma análise mais detalhada sobre a gênese e os elementos chaves da política pública voltada para a integração...
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Journal Articles
The Formalization of Informal/Precarious Labor in Contemporary ArgentinaInternational Sociology
Abstract: In this article we argue that the Argentinian state is legalizing or formalizing informal/precarious labor. In the actual context...
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