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Research Reports
Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers
Recyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places...
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Journal Articles
Recycling Livelihoods: A Global Network Supports Waste-Pickers in Latin America
Standing for long hours in line to receive your first paycheck may sound pretty stressful. However, for recyclers in Bogotá, their first...
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Research Reports
Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre o cuidado das crianças e trabalhadoras informais de 6 organizações de base (OBs) de trabalhadoras/es pobres
Esta publicação é um resumo de “Nossos filhos não recebem a atenção que merecem”: Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre...
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Research Reports
The paradoxes of informalizing street trade in the Latin American city
Lissette Aliaga Linares, a WIEGO member, compares the approaches to regulating street trade in Lima & Bogota in this paper.
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Journal Articles
RéplicaNexos
Sin duda los problemas del crecimiento económico en México merecen estar en el centro de la discusión pública.
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Research Reports
Informalidad y Urbanismo Social en Medellín
La ciudad de Medellín, después de unas décadas de aislamiento e involución caracterizadas por altos índices de inseguridad, violencia y segregación...
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Books & Book Chapters
Making labor law work for part-time and contingent workers
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Research Reports
The Informal Economy: Experiences of African Americans
FIELD Program (Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination)
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Research Reports
Temporary Help Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
Summary: The number of jobs in the temporary help services industry reached an all-time high of 2.9 million in May 2015, accounting for 2.4...
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Toolkits and Guides
Asociación Nacional de Recicladores de Colombia
Información sobre la Asociación Nacional de Recicladores de Colombia
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