African home-based workers are at the bottom of craft supply chains. Through an increased understanding of those supply chains they could overcome some of the challenges they are facing and improve their livelihoods.
Public space provides a window into the soul of a city. It is where collective urban life plays out — cycling to work, playing in a park, enjoying hot food from a street corner, performing music for a tip, coming together in celebration or resistance. This diversity of activity can make public spaces rich, but it can also make managing public space difficult.
This diversity of activity can make public spaces rich, but it can also make managing public space difficult.
Modernization in cities is meant to ease the commute for workers and offer convenience — to make lives easier. But too often, it’s the poorest urban workers who pay the price for change.
Just after 4 a.m., Lima is asleep, streets nearly empty and sidewalks deserted except for a few women in municipal jumpsuits and masks who clean up debris. Even the densely populated San Juan de Lurigancho district of this sprawling metropolis is quiet.
La modernización en las ciudades sirve para facilitar el desplazamiento de los trabajadores y aportar comodidades, para hacer la vida más fácil. Sin embargo, muy a menudo, son las trabajadoras y trabajadores urbanos pobres los que pagan el precio de estos cambios.
Por Leslie Vryenhoek con notas de campo de Avi Majithia, Pauline Conley, Sarah Reed, Megan MacLeod y Olga Abizaid
WIEGO se réjouit des grands changements apportés à la Classification internationale d’après la situation dans la profession (CISP). Et nous sommes fières d’avoir contribué à l’établissement de nouvelles catégories qui, à terme, pourraient mener à de meilleures politiques nationales au profit des travailleurs et travailleuses du secteur informel.
