Building Collective Power

Extending Labor Standards to Informal Workers at the Base of Global Garment Value Chains: New Institutions in the Labor Market

This report presents three examples of emerging institutional arrangements in the labor market from the perspective of the author who works...

Using the Law

Informal Employment, Labour Law and the Challenge of Enforcement

In order to regulate, improve and standarDize informal labor, there is a need for a strategic vision of labor regulation supported by theories,...

Domestic Workers Around the World: Organising for Empowerment

Paper prepared for the Social Law Project Conference, 7-8 May 2010, Cape Town.

The World’s Scavengers – Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Decent Work for Domestic Workers

ILO: Geneva

Confronting and Engaging Privatisation

God is My Alarm Clock: A Brazilian Waste Picker’s Story

The story of an informal worker, Mrs. Maria Brás, who was a tireless force in the struggle of waste pickers in Brazil to overcome persecution...

Ghana: Breaking Down the Barriers of Scepticism

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...