Global Advocacy and Negotiations

Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers

Extending social protection to informal workers, most of whom are excluded from social protection, has become increasingly urgent as the...

Informal Worker Organising and Mobilisation: Linking Global with Local Advocacy

Informal Employment in the Global South: Globalization, Production Relations and “Precarity”

This book presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political, and...

The Rights of Domestic Workers: Chances and Challenges for International and National Advocacy Work and Networking

Ecumenical Center, Geneva, Switzerland On the occasion of the 99th Session of the International Labor Conference

Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme

Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India.

Revisiting Agency Work in Namibia and South Africa: Any Lessons from the Decent Work Agenda and the Flexicurity Approach?International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Abstract: Namibia has recently introduced policies regarding the regulation of agency work, and South Africa is in the process of doing the...

Hacia una alianza global de recicladores (Towards a Global Alliance of Wastepickers)

Las tres propuestas del tercio del empleo en Perú

This document (in Spanish), developed by informal workers’ organizations from Peru, presents a set of recommendations in three main...

Cities are undermining the potential of universal cash grants to support women’s economic empowerment and reduce poverty

Ninety-two per cent of women’s employment in the developing world is in the informal economy, and as urbanization proceeds an increasing...

Where are the inclusive cities? Street vendors globally face increasing hostility

The WIEGO Urban Policies Team analyzed news articles on street vendors from six continents over the past 18 months to gain a better understanding...