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  • Research Reports

    The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

    These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

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  • Working Papers

    Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

    The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

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  • Research Reports

    Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion in the Dominican Republic

    Background paper for ILO-IMF Tripartite Consultation on Job-rich and Inclusive Growth in the Dominican Republic.

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  • Journal Articles

    Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador.Antipode

    Much of the discussion surrounding neoliberal urbanism has been empirically grounded in the North. This paper shifts the discussion south...

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  • Research Reports

    Research on Informal Work in the U.S.: Emerging Concepts and Measurement

    Background memo prepared for the WIEGO Workshop on Informal Employment in Developed Countries, Harvard University, October 31 ‐ November...

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  • Journal Articles

    Working in Large Food Retailers in France and the USA: The Key Role of InstitutionsWork Employment & Society

    Abstract: Despite numerous similarities between the food retail sectors of France and the USA, there are significant contrasts in the jobs,...

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Urbanism in the USA: New Challenges for Theory and PracticePlanning Theory and Practice

    Devlin describes the case of immigrant food vendors in an area of Brooklyn and how as they became more popular with better off New Yorkers...

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  • Journal Articles

    Rethinking Labor Law in the New Commonwealth Caribbean Economy: A Framework for Change

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  • Journal Articles

    Social policy and collective action: Unemployed workers, community associations, and protest in Argentina

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  • Briefs

    Recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – An Overview of Inclusive Programming

    Brazil is one of the world’s most progressive countries in integrating waste pickers in solid waste management systems, and Belo Horizonte...

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