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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Waste Pickers: A Gendered Perspective

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  • Research Reports

    Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

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  • Research Reports

    New Practices of Waste Management – Case of Mumbai

    Working Paper No. 35 in the SP Working Paper Series of School of Planning of CEPT University

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  • Research Reports

    Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers

    Recyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places...

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  • Journal Articles

    Legal reforms for the self-employed: three urban cases

    Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed. This article examines...

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  • Journal Articles

    Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

    The crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers...

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  • Journal Articles

    Reclaiming the World’s Waste: Waste Pickers Organizing for Inclusion

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  • Research Reports

    Belo Horizonte Selective Waste Collection Programme

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  • Research Reports

    Organizando en las calles: Un estudio de recicladores en las calles de Ciudad del Cabo

    Un resumen basado en el informe de Koni Benson y Nanadi Vanga-Mgijima, Grupo Internacional de Investigación e Información Laboral

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  • Worker Story

    God is My Alarm Clock: A Brazilian Waste Picker’s Story

    The story of an informal worker, Mrs. Maria Brás, who was a tireless force in the struggle of waste pickers in Brazil to overcome persecution...

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