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Policy/Position Documents
Global Position Paper from Workers’ Organizations in the Informal Economy on Decent Work and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), Prepared for the 110th Session of the International Labour Conference
International networks of workers in the informal economy and WIEGO welcome the ILO report on decent work and the social and solidarity economy...
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Law & Informality Insights
Social Movement Lawyering: A Reflection on the Nature of Law and Lawyering Through the Lens of Informal Workers
Applying insights from critical legal studies, this issue of Law and Informality Insights explores how informal workers use the law to resolve...
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Resource Documents
Social Protection for Self-Employed Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A rights-based assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis
Informal workers make up a large proportion of the “missing middle” in social protection – those who are not considered vulnerable enough...
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Worker Story
Reshmaben Bashirkhan Pathan, a home-based worker organizer in Ahmedabad, India
Reshmaben is an organizer with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She learnt tailoring from her mother when she was 14. Now, at...
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Research Reports
Home as Workplace: A spatial reading of workhomes – Part B
This study looks at all the ways in which home aids work — spatially and infrastructurally — and illustrates the role of various factors...
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Research Reports
Home as Workplace: A spatial reading of workhomes – Part A
This study looks at all the ways in which home aids work — spatially and infrastructurally — and illustrates the role of various factors...
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City/Country Level Reports
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Pleven, Bulgaria: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery
Pleven, Bulgaria, has a large informal worker population due in part to its large garment manufacturing sector. This report presents the...
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Policy/Position Documents
Position Paper on Inequalities and the World of Work, prepared for the 109th Session of the International Labour Conference
Despite a pre-pandemic modest decrease in the number of people living in extreme poverty, the number of extremely poor increased by about...
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News
Global Advocacy and Negotiations November 09, 2021Open Letter to European Union Policymakers
As the world reels from the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, where supply chains and workers’ livelihoods were brought to a grinding...
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Advocacy Materials
Social Protection for Informal Workers: Trends and Changes – Social Protection Briefing Note No. 2
Many different organizations and specialists talk about universal social protection. But their vision of how to achieve it is very different....
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