The Americas

Land, Life, and Security: An Interview with Edgardo Garcia, Secretary General of the Association of Farm Workers in Nicaragua

Abstract: This is an interview with Edgardo Garcia, Secretary General of the Association of Farm Workers in Nicaragua and Oscar Berríos from...

Outside the Law: An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors in Bogotá

Abstract: Millions of people worldwide work outside the law as street vendors in order to earn a living.

Co-optation, Competition and Resistance: State and Street Vendors in Mexico City

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Home is Where the Work is: Inside New York’s Domestic Work Industry

The Informal Economy: Making it in Rural America

FIELD (The Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination) is a program of the Aspen Institute.

Enforcement Strategies for Empowerment: Models for the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Research and Policy Brief No. 30

Displacement and the New Spaces for Informal Trade in the Latin American City Centre

Using evidence from Cusco, Peru, the paper examines the effects of the planned displacement of informal traders from city-centre streets....

Informalidad, inseguridad y cohesión social en América Latina

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the...

Depressive and anxiety symptoms among housemaidsAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine

Background: Housemaid, the most common occupation in the female labor force in Brazil, is known to be targeted by a generalized racial and...