The Americas

Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry

From the Executive Summary of the report: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its expanding garment industry pays wages...

Co-operatives and Workers in the Informal Economy: Possibilities and Challenges

Co-operatives and Workers in the Informal Economy: Possibilities and Challenges” is an initial study of co-operatives and their relationships...

Estudio en seguridad industrial y salud ocupacional para el caso del trabajo del reciclador en la calle

La producción de desechos y basuras es el resultado ignorado de un modelo de desarrollo capitalista, altamente extractivista para los países...

The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...

Solidarity Economy and the Struggle for Social Citizenship in Ties of Globalization: A Study of Cooperatives of Informal Garbage Pickers in Colombia

Measuring informal employment in Mexico

Seminar for the WIEGO Workshop on Informal Employment in Developed Countries, Cambridge, MA, 31 October – 1 November 2008

Reporte de Participante Nacional – Colombia

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

The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor

The Informal Economy and Microenterprise in the United States

Field Forum, Issue 14

Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage