The Americas

How Recyclers and Vendors in New York City are Challenging Big Money to Build a Better City for Working People

By keeping corporations accountable for the waste they produce and providing affordable goods and services to working class people, recyclers...

Overturning the Productivity Mandate: Putting People at the Centre

It is a myth that cooperatives, which put people at the centre, are not a viable alternative to the current economic system because they...

Statistics on Waste Pickers: A Case Studies Guide

This report draws on the experiences and efforts of organizations of waste pickers to develop and make data on them available to policymakers...

COVID-19 Impacts on Employment in Mexico: A Statistical Snapshot of 2020-2023

Impactos das mudanças climáticas e estratégias de adaptação: Experiências de catadoras e catadores de materiais recicláveis do Brasil

Principais conclusões: Experiências com eventos climáticos sérios: Muitas catadoras e catadores de materiais recicláveis (91%) vivenciaram,...

Climate-Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies: Waste Pickers’ Experiences from Brazil

From 2022 to 2023, WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, in collaboration with the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, led an exploratory...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Employment in Mexico, 2020-2023

‘Whose Law? Our Law!’: Critical Reflections on Legalization, Social Dialogue and Street Vendors’ Organizing in São Paulo

Key Points The institutionalization of social dialogue is an important step towards more just regulation of informal vending, but alone it...

Workers in Informal Employment in El Salvador: A Statistical Profile, 2019-2021

This brief examines data on employment in El Salvador for 2019 to 2021 and analyzes the changes in employment.

Waste Pickers and Human Rights in Latin America

This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human...