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  • Research Reports

    Can Waste-Picking Be a Good Career?

    This Next City article, about KKPKP and SWaCH, has been posted here on WIEGO’s website with permission from Next City.

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  • Research Reports

    Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

    Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....

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  • Journal Articles
  • Global Reports

    Resumo dos principais achados – Cooperacao entre trabalhadores na economia informal: Um foco nos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras domiciliares e catadores e catadoras de material reciclavel

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    KKPKP’s Documentary

    The film features KKPKP and the development of SwaCH, a recycling cooperative in Pune, India.View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Cooperatives in Uruguay

    Link:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCQJMbJ6_HM

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Organising the Unorganised: A Case Study of the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (Trade Union of Waste-pickers)

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters
  • Toolkits and Guides

    Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa (Summary)

    Summary of WIEGO Organizing Brief 3

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Robert Neuwirth: The Power of the Informal Economy

    TED Summary:Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers,...

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