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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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