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  • Research Reports

    Gênero e Meio Ambiente: A dupla Jornada de Injustiça Ambiental em uma Cooperativa de Mulheres de Catadoras de Materiais Recicláveis.

    em português   ABSTRACTS:   English VALLIN, Isabella de Carvalho. Gender and Environment: the double burden of environmental injustice in...

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  • Worker Story

    Deus é meu Despertador

    Série Vida dos Trabalhadores. Dona Maria Brás foi uma força incansável na luta das cooperativas de catadores brasileiros contra a perseguição...

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  • Journal Articles

    Depressive and anxiety symptoms among housemaidsAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine

    Background: Housemaid, the most common occupation in the female labor force in Brazil, is known to be targeted by a generalized racial and...

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  • Research Reports

    Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Sul)

    Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez Relatórios sobre outras regiões:Centro-OesteNordesteNorteSudeste ...

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  • Research Reports

    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....

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  • Working Papers

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil, Pakistan, Peru and Philippines

    This paper brings together the findings from four country papers on informal economy budget analysis. Informal economy budget analysis asks...

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal jobs and non-fatal occupational injuriesAnnals of Occupational Hygiene

    Objectives: In Brazil, workers without a formal job contract represent approximately half of the labor force but there are no official statistics...

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  • Research Reports

    Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Nordeste)

    Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez Relatórios sobre outras regiões:Centro-OesteNorteSudesteSul ...

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  • Journal Articles

    Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil

    This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory...

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  • Working Papers

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

    This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the...

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