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Este manual detalla las experiencias organizativas de los trabajadores informales y proporciona información, ideas prácticas, estrategias exitosas, inspiración y recursos para los organizadores. Este manual es una fuente de referencia, para todos aquellos dedicados a la organización de trabajadores...
Organizations that organize informal workers are growing in number and scope, particularly in developing countries, but also increasingly in the industrialized countries of the north. These organizations take many different forms such as unions, associations, cooperatives, self-help groups, networks...
This manual, primarily for trade unionists and social movement activists, is designed to provoke and encourage discussion about homeworkers and their rights as workers, raise awareness about the international ILO Home Work Convention and its significance for homeworkers in each country, encourage...
Este manual, orientado principalmente para sindicalistas y activistas en movimientos sociales, fue diseñado para promover y alentar discusiones sobre las trabajadoras y los trabajadores a domicilio subcontratados y sus derechos, así como para hacer sensibilización e torno al Convenio sobre trabajo a...
The story of an informal worker, Mrs. Maria Brás, who was a tireless force in the struggle of waste pickers in Brazil to overcome persecution and gain respect and security as members of cooperative ventures.
Summary from article: The number of contingent, casual, irregular workers is rising both in the developed and developing world. In the United States the estimates sometimes place the number between twenty and thirty million workers. The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics in its most...
This paper provides an overview of informal workers' own self-organization across a number of sectors. Findings highlight both the special characterisitics of each sector and the differences between them. Primary Sectors studied include domestic workers, home-based workers, waste pickers and street...
The Latin American Wastpicker's movement has grown from 5 to 17 member countries in the last 5 years. United and strong their demand is "Waste is ours!" Lucia Fernandez, WIEGO's Global Coordinator for Waste Pickers, is inteviewed in this video.
In 2008, WIEGO initiated the Law and Informal Economy project, focusing on the legal aspects of helping informal workers with economic opportunity, labour rights, benefits and protection. This paper highlights some of the key lessons learned from the project regarding the nature of the informal...
"The International Domestic Workers Network (IDWN) is watching with great interest the events in the Netherlands. For the second year, the cleaners and domestic workers have to go on strike in order to achieve an acceptable collective agreement for the industry. We are very proud that the Dutch...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.