The Americas

Sumário Executivo: Vendedoras e Vendedores de Rua da Região Metropolitana de Lima

Linking Trade and Labour Standards: A Promising Synergy or Double-edged Sword? Acta Juridica

Trade liberalisation is increasingly promoted and regulated through regional, bilateral or unilateral trade arrangements. In recent years...

Land, Life, and Security: An Interview with Edgardo Garcia, Secretary General of the Association of Farm Workers in Nicaragua

Abstract: This is an interview with Edgardo Garcia, Secretary General of the Association of Farm Workers in Nicaragua and Oscar Berríos from...

Statistics on Street Vendors and Market Traders in Metropolitan Lima and Urban Peru

Based on this survey, the brief reviews trends in street vending and market trade in Lima and in urban Peru between 2004 and 2015. It also...

The unexpected power of informal workers in the public square: A comparison of Mexican and U.S. organizing models

Abstract: Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face...

Measuring Nonstandard Employment in the United States

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Enforcement Strategies for Empowerment: Models for the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Research and Policy Brief No. 30

First Congress of Latin American Waste Pickers. Managua, February 2012 (Video)

The Latin American Wastpicker’s movement has grown from 5 to 17 member countries in the last 5 years. United and strong their demand...

Afya na Usalama Katika Maeneo ya Kazi na Kazi za Nyumbani

(Swahili) 

Law: Bogotá Res DG-137-07

Law governing street vendors’ associations in Bogotá, Colombia