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  • Research Reports

    Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Centro-Oeste)

    Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez   Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Nordeste NorteSudeste Sul ...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

    This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

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  • Research Reports

    Recomendações para Políticas – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal – Catadores de Belo Horizonte: Catadores de Belo Horizonte: Realidades e Recomendações

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  • Journal Articles

    First Take: Waste – Global Challenge, Latin American Lessons ReVista (Harvard Review of Latin America)

    Waste—its generation, collection and disposal—is a major global challenge in the 21st century. This is the lead article of the special issue...

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  • Research Reports

    Nossos filhosnão recebem a atenção que merecem

    Esta publicação relata os resultados de uma pesquisa em cinco cidades, que examinava o acesso das trabalhadoras informais ao cuidado de crianças...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    The Mobilization of Bolivian Domestic Workers

    This brief describes the mobilization of domestic workers in Bolivia focusing particularly on the campaign that led to the approval of the...

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Research Reports

    Reporte de Participante Nacional – Colombia

    Taller de Estadísticas del Sector Informal en América Latina (OIT/WIEGO)

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights

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  • Journal Articles

    Sociological Inquiry

    Abstract: Most research on the informal economy concentrates on how the informal economy operates at the international and regional levels...

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