The Americas

Working in Large Food Retailers in France and the USA: The Key Role of InstitutionsWork Employment & Society

Abstract: Despite numerous similarities between the food retail sectors of France and the USA, there are significant contrasts in the jobs,...

Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries

Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005

Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain

Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No. 0216

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...

Informal Jobs: Another Occupational Hazard for Women’s Mental Health?International Journal of Epidemiology

A Experiência de Advocacy no caso dos Trabalhadores Ambulantes em São Paulo

Este sumário, disponível em português, faz uma reflexão sobre o processo jurídico que contestou e acabou por derrubar uma proibição da Câmara...

Wages and Employment in International Recessions: Recent Latin American Experience

Waste Pickers’ Recognition as Public Waste Managers in Colombia

Presentation prepared for the Conference “Putting Public in Public Services: Research, Action and Equity in the Global South.”

Labor Market Rigidities and Informality in ColombiaEconomía

Informality has been at the center of the economic debate in Colombia as a result of the high levels prevalent in the country and its substantial...

Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.