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Books & Book Chapters
The Roadmap to Sustainable and Inclusive Solid Waste Systems A Tale of two Cities
The chapter is on pages 41-47.
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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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Books & Book Chapters
Making labor law work for part-time and contingent workers
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Research Reports
Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities
Abstract:
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City/Country Level Reports
WIEGO Report on the Policy Environment of Informal Urban Waste Pickers and Artisanal Mine Workers in Colombia
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Working Papers
Domestic Workers in Latin America: Statistics for New Policies
This paper analyzes domestic work, where the labour relationship is ill-regulated and difficult to control, and the conditions and characteristics...
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Policy Briefs
Visão geral dos Instrumentos Legais para a Inclusão de Recicladores Informais na Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos no Brasil
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City/Country Level Reports
Trajectories and Memories – Waste and Citizenship Forums: Unique Experiments of Social Justice and Participatory Governance
Summary of PhD Thesis by Sonia Maria Dias. Full thesis available in Portuguese here.
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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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