Region: The Americas

Informal jobs and non-fatal occupational injuriesAnnals of Occupational Hygiene

Objectives: In Brazil, workers without a formal job contract represent approximately half of the labor force but there are no official statistics...

Trajetόrias e Memόrias dos Fόruns Lixo e Cidadania No Brasil: Experimentos Singulares de Justiça Social e Governança Participativa

Summary available in English here.

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores em Belo Horizonte, Brasil

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...

Informal Urbanism in the USA: New Challenges for Theory and PracticePlanning Theory and Practice

Devlin describes the case of immigrant food vendors in an area of Brooklyn and how as they became more popular with better off New Yorkers...

Finding a Collective Voice to Become Visible: The Creation of the RENAREC

Story prepared by: Olga Abizaid, WIEGO with Felipe Toledo, Fundación AVINA, Yolanda Bueno, Fundación Alianza, and María Llanes (former President...

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Informal City Dialogues

According to the website, “the Informal City Dialogues is a year-long project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted...

Collective Bargaining and Domestic Workers in Uruguay

Through the collective bargaining process, the Sindicato Unico de Trabajadoras Domsticas (SUTD) has been able to win rights including a seniority...

Género y Residuos: Reformulando las Relaciones para el Empoderamiento

Los métodos participativos son esenciales para explorar los varios niveles de sumisión y discriminación que las recicladoras enfrentan, así...