Programme: Organization and Representation Programme

Co-operatives and Workers in the Informal Economy: Possibilities and Challenges

Co-operatives and Workers in the Informal Economy: Possibilities and Challenges” is an initial study of co-operatives and their relationships...

Wünsche für die Zukunft. Was ExpertInnen der ILO empfehlen

Trade unions and the challenge of the informalisation of work

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Global Networking: Informal Workers Build Solidarity, Power and Representation through Networks and Alliances

Over the past three decades informal workers, mainly in the global South and their organizations have joined and launched global networks...

Out of the Shadows: Homebased Workers Organize for International Recognition

SEEDS, No. 18

Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

Street vendors have occupied public space in central Lima since the colonial period, and the first recorded attempt to regulate street trade...

Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

This book is organised around some of the key themes related to the organising of waste pickers and their integration into municipal waste...

Annotated Bibliography on Organizing in the Informal Economy

Declaration of the African Regional Domestic Workers Conference

On 16 June, 2013, the second anniversary of the adoption of the C189 and the World Domestic Workers’ Day, domestic workers in Africa launched...

“Yes, We Did It!” How the World’s Domestic Workers Won Their International Rights and Recognition