Programme: Organization and Representation Programme

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...

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...

Street Vendor Licensing and Permits — Reflections from StreetNet International

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...

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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...