Organization and Representation Programme

Home-Based Workers Around the World

Pocket Tools for Homeworkers Working in Garment Supply Chains is part of a series produced by the Home-based Workers Organizing for Economic...

A Global Snapshot of Home-Based Workers

Pocket Tools for Homeworkers Working in Garment Supply Chains is part of a series produced by the Home-based Workers Organizing for Economic...

Waste Pickers and Human Rights

ILO estimates indicate that close to 20 million people worldwide earn their living from recycling waste. Many work as waste pickers who gather...

Human rights violations signal urgent need to improve waste pickers’ working conditions in Latin America

For waste pickers, harassment is a part of daily life, also before the pandemic. Our reports on human rights in Latin America serve as a...

Social Dialogue for the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy

Six case studies in this Global Deal thematic brief are based on research commissioned from WIEGO. Jane Barrett, Director of Organization...

Reducing Waste in Coastal Cities through Inclusive Recycling

The RWCC Project Waste pickers worldwide contribute significantly in preventing ocean waste pollution by recycling and reusing materials...

Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

Defining and Categorizing Organizations of Informal Workers in Developing and Developed Countries

This organizing brief, written for researchers and activists concerned about informal workers, aims to capture the full range of or­ganizational...

Collective Bargaining by Informal Workers in the Global South: Where and How It Takes Place

This Working Paper examines what collective negotiation (bargaining) looks like and what it means for informal worker organizations and their...

WIEGO Research Project: Informal Workers’ Organizing

This paper provides an overview of informal workers’ own self-organization across a number of sectors. Findings highlight both the...