SSE and Cooperatives

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

Special issue on labor in the global South

Certification of Occupational Skills

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

Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries

Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005

Organizing Informal Workers by Combining Power, Protection, and PoliticsSocial Policy

Summary from article: The number of contingent, casual, irregular workers is rising both in the developed and developing world. In the United...

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...

Manual for Domestic Workers: Organizing a Better Future

This manual, by Committee for Asian Women (CAW) aims to assist the leaders of domestic worker groups to come out of a powerless situation...

In times of crisis, grassroots organizations re-imagine democratic practice

Democratic norms are under threat worldwide. Informal workers and other marginalized groups are witnessing the reversal of hard-fought wins...

WIEGO MBO Newsletter

Our MBO (Membership-based Organization) Newsletter series has been revived, with a new format featuring shorter and more focused stories. ...