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The processes of liberalisation, globalisation, and privatisation were expected to weaken the bargaining power of workers vis-à-vis employers and lead to a reduction in the number and frequency of industrial conflicts. However, the reform measures were in some cases successfully opposed by trade...
Standing for long hours in line to receive your first paycheck may sound pretty stressful. However, for recyclers in Bogotá, their first paycheck was a huge victory after more than twenty years of legal and political struggles—proof of the power of committed partnerships between academics and...
Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure insecurity. MHT has developed innovative mechanisms for screening the security of tenure of properties outside of the conventional housing finance space. Further...
From the Executive Summary of the report: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its expanding garment industry pays wages to workers that are among the lowest in any of the world’s leading apparel-exporting nations.1 Yet despite benefiting from rock-bottom labor costs – as well as...
Over the past three decades informal workers, mainly in the global South and their organizations have joined and launched global networks of solidarity, advocacy and militancy. This paper reviews several key differences in some five of the largest global and transnational networks of informal...
Programa WIEGO: Fortaleciendo la voz de los trabajadores informales en las decisiones de política social en América Latina
This report provides detailed information on a project, where workers were trained on unionism, social security, occupational health and safety, social protection and legislation for specific sectors. Further, other initiatives are included, like the development of plans of incidence for each of the...
Estratégias para fortelecer la capacidad de las organizaciones de trabajadores y trabajadoras en empleo informal
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...
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.