Building Collective Power

Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

Visibility and Voice for Union Women: Country Case Studies from Global Labour University Researchers

Volume 4 of the Labor and Globalization SeriesMore information is available here.

Certification of Occupational Skills

This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

Reclaiming the World’s Waste: Waste Pickers Organizing for Inclusion

Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry

From the Executive Summary of the report: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its expanding garment industry pays wages...

Working Women and Security: Self Employed Women’s Association’s Response to Crisis

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Organizing Informal Women Workers

Paper prepared for UNRISD Gender Policy Report.Abstract:

South Africa’s Waste Pickers Creating Jobs and Fighting Poverty

Africa's Informal Workers. Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa

Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

 (Hindi) A summary based on the report by Koni Benson and Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) ...