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Research Reports

Collective Bargaining and Employment Relations in Kenya

From the Introduction:This paper provides an account of the development of the employment relationship in Kenya, noting the role of public...

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Respect for Recyclers: Protecting the Climate through Zero Waste

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The Informal Economy and Employment in Brazil

The book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil (waste pickers and street vendors at Porto...

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Visible Hands – Invisible Women: Garment Production in TurkeyFeminist Economics

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WIEGO Report on the Policy Environment of Informal Urban Waste Pickers and Artisanal Mine Workers in Colombia

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Politics of archiving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta.Dialectical Anthropology

In the last decade, several influential scholars have rigorously worked on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the poor in the cities...

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Capitalism and the Common Man – Four Decades of Development in Africa and S Asia

Unpublished paper written for Graduate Institute, Annual Lecture, Geneva, 23 September 2010

Research Reports

Sidewalk Standoff: Street Vendor Regulations are Costly, Confusing, and Leave Many Disgruntled

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Informal workers Organising and Representation (In Central and Eastern Europe).

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Gender, Work Intensity, and Well-Being of Thai Home-Based WorkersFeminist Economics

Abstract: The contribution explores the time-use dimensions of the individual well-being of home-based workers in Thailand’s urban...

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