The Americas

Challenges of informal employment in Mexico City

The Round Table “Informal Employment in Mexico City: Challenges and Perspectives 2017” was organized on February 16, 2017 as...

Diseño para aseadores CDMX – Equipo 6

Designs prepared for Mexico City Shoe Shiner’s Union by a group of design students from Mexico City’s IberoAmerican University.  ...

Redemption – The Documentary

From the documentary’s website: “They are New York City’s gleaners – struggling at the edge of our society. You see them on almost...

United-States-of-America-Law: Hawaii Act 248 – An Act Relating to Labor (Domestics) (United States)

Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights for the state of Hawaii.

The Legal Regulation of Street Vendors in New York City

This paper looks into the legal status of street vendors in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s and illustrates that despite persistent...

OHS Initiative for Informal Workers – The Case Study of Brazil

OHS Learning Meeting May 2011

Cooperativa Recicla Ourinhos (English)

Recicla Ourinhos is a cooperative whose 80 members are contracted by the municipality to provide services for collection, assessment, improvement...

Boletín Recicladores, No.1 – Año 2012

Recyclers in Nicaragua: A Productive and Environmental Force

Recyclers in Nicaragua: A Productive and Environmental ForceRecyclers in Nicaragua: A Productive and Environmental Force from Erik Flakoll...

Out of the Shadows

A blog written by Jenna Harvey while she was a Fulbright student in 2013-2014.