The Americas

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

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Garbage, Industry, and the ‘Vultures’ of Cali, Colombia

The Formalization of Informal/Precarious Labor in Contemporary ArgentinaInternational Sociology

Abstract: In this article we argue that the Argentinian state is legalizing or formalizing informal/precarious labor. In the actual context...

Legal Empowerment of Workers in the Informal Economy

This report provides detailed information on a project, where workers were trained on unionism, social security, occupational health and...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Lima, Peru

Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....

2013 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean.

Twenty years after the Labour Overview was first published, we analyze the challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean today. We also...

Informal recycling and occupational health in Santo André, Brazil

Abstract: The collection of recyclables is a widespread activity among urban poor, particularly in countries with large socio-economic disparities....

World at work: Brazilian ragpickers

Measuring informal employment in Mexico

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