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WIEGO's December 2013 Newsletter for Membership-Based Organizations of Informal Workers Read the newsletter in English . Leer el boletín en español . Lire cette lettre d'information en français . Ler o boletim em português .
Subtitle : Key Characteristics and Recent Trends Contract workers – those employed by a third party rather than directly by the factory or enterprise where they work – are commonly found in global garment supply chains, yet remain largely ignored and poorly understood as a specific category of...
Better Work or ‘Ethical Fix’? Lessons from Cambodia's Apparel Industry, by Dennis Arnold. In this column, Dennis Arnold focuses on ILO’s Better Work programme in Cambodia with the analysis being on the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) which was established in 2001 involving the ILO, the Cambodian...
From the Executive Summary of the report: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its expanding garment industry pays wages to workers that are among the lowest in any of the world’s leading apparel-exporting nations.1 Yet despite benefiting from rock-bottom labor costs – as well as...
"This report aims to empower consumers to purchase ethically while encouraging companies to ensure that the workers that produce the products they sell are protected and not harmed, that they are rewarded, not exploited and that they work free from the tyranny of modern slavery."
A blog post by Jason Patinkin about the used clothing trade in Kenya. To learn more about the Rockefeller Foundation's Informal City Dialogues project, click here .
WIEGO's August 2013 Newsletter for Membership-Based Organizations of Informal Workers Read the newsletter in English . Leer el boletín en español . Lire cette lettre d'information en français . Ler o boletim em português .
When images of poor labor conditions in the garment industries of leading apparel-exporting countries reach the global news media, it is often because those conditions seem uniquely and unjustifiably extreme. Malnourished workers working 14-hour days faint by the hundreds in Cambodian garment plants...
A blog post by Ariel Muller about workshops in Accra, Bangkok, Chennai, Lima, Manila, and Nairobi. To learn more about the Rockefeller Foundation's Informal City Dialogues project, click here .
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.