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From the paper's introduction: "Home‐based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working from his/her home. This essential service is tied in with a larger chain of forward and backward linkages that enable the value addition till the goods reach their final...
Subtitled: Roles, Constraints and Opportunities for Informal Workers Includes a literature review of publications or resources produced in English since 1995 that constitute or include a value chain analysis of the export cocoa, coffee, tea or horticulture sectors, and which contain a significant...
Overview of the informal sector in Ghana, with a focus on domestic workers, street vendors, and head porters
By Laxan Kundan. This movie recounts how two members of the Fair Trade Group Nepal, the Association for Craft Producers and Women's Skill Development Project, provide economic opportunities for poor women producers, and help them work their way out of the poverty cycle to make a vital contribution...
This resource is a technical guide, commissioned by WIEGO. A single, technical and universally accepted definition of Fair Trade has been slow to emerge. In 2001 some of the major players in the Fair Trade movement came together to agree on a definition of Fair Trade: "Fair Trade is a trading...
WIEGO Organizing Series
Initial Lessons from the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Purchasing Practices Project. London. Ethical Trading Initiative.
This essay foregrounds the phenomenon of informalised self-employment and explores its implications for potentially new forms of labour activism. The relation which defines the new location of labour is one in which the labourer is no longer a source of surplus, rather he/she is an unwanted...
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.