SSE and Cooperatives

Reshaping the social contract: emerging relations between the state and informal labor in India

Abstract: This article focuses on informal construction and bidi (local tobacco) workers in India. Informal workers in these sectors can...

Recycling Livelihoods: A Global Network Supports Waste-Pickers in Latin America

Standing for long hours in line to receive your first paycheck may sound pretty stressful. However, for recyclers in Bogotá, their first...

The Self-Employed Women’s Association

Enhancing Lobbying Capacity of Women Street Vendors: The Challenges in the Kenyan Policy Environment

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The unexpected power of informal workers in the public square: A comparison of Mexican and U.S. organizing models

Abstract: Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face...

Organising Workers in the Informal Economy: The Experience of the Self Employed Women’s Union, 1994-2004

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Time for a New Deal: Social Dialogue and the Informal Economy in Zambia

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La certificación de competencias laborales

Este documento discute el proceso para la certificación de competencias laborales usado en Colombia y el papel que WIEGO desempeña en apoyo...

SEWU and Sikhula Tips on Organising Informal Workers

Organizing the ‘Unorganized’: Varieties of Transnational Trade Union Collaboration and Social Dialogue in Two Indian Cities

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