May Day 2026: Worker Organizations Uphold Democracy Amidst Rising Conflict and Authoritarianism Read More
The Effects of Handling Solid Waste on the Wellbeing of Informal and Organized Recyclers: a review of the literature Estimated at 15 million people operating globally, informal recyclers perform a vital public service while working individually or within... Read More
The Informal Workforce and Public Policy WIEGO translated this article into English (with permission) from the original, published in Trabajo Informal, Este Pais, in July 2013. ... Read More
Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approachDevelopment in Practice Abstract: This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in... Read More
Domestic Workers Organize!Working USA This article traces the history of domestic worker organizing in the U.S. It challenges the long-standing assumption that these—primarily... Read More
Organising Women Workers in the Informal EconomyGender and Development Abstract: This article focuses on the challenges facing organisation among the hardest-to-reach working women in the informal economy. What... Read More
Wages and Informal Labour Markets in India: Whither Premiums on Human Capital Investments?-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics The labour market in India is segmented into the formal and informal sectors, with the informal sector being further heterogeneous. This... Read More
Peeling the Onion: Social Regulation of the Onion Market, Nangarhar, AfghanistanEconomic and Political Weekly Afghanistan’s hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links... Read More
China’s Neglected Informal Economy: Reality and TheoryModern China Abstract: The informal economy—defined as workers who have no security of employment, receive few or no benefits, and are often unprotected... Read More
