SSE and Cooperatives

Street Traders: A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa

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Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....

Towards Economic Freedom: The Impact of SEWA

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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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