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