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Este vertedero de la ciudad de Guatemala y municipios cercanos es quizás un buen ejemplo de lo que significa coordinar el trabajo de recicladores al interior de un vertedero, mitigando o reduciendo significativamente los riesgos de todo tipo. A través de un documento que recoge las visitas y...
Economic and social inequality is a major problem, implicated in poverty, ill health and exploitation. Inequality has increased in many countries since the 1980s and it is also widely seen as unfair, yet action against it has been sporadic and often ineffective. To better understand why inequality...
The strike by women workers in the tea plantations of Kerala brings to fore the miserable living conditions of the workers in this sector across the country. With more than a million permanent workers, the tea plantation industry is the largest in the formal private sector in the country. Yet wages...
L’écart continue de se creuser entre riches et pauvres. Au cours des décennies ayant précédé la Grande récession, la croissance économique bénéficiait déjà de manière disproportionnée aux catégories à haut revenu, tandis que les ménages à bas revenu étaient laissés pour compte. Depuis la crise, les...
From this edition of the ILO's newsletter: "Indigenous peoples constitute about 5% of the world’s population and account for 15% of the world’s poor. This suggests that inequalities for indigenous peoples in the world of work persist. Celebrating today’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous...
Evidence from a recent assessment by Mercy Corps of economic recovery assessment in Sierra Leone showed that youth and petty traders were economically struggling at disproportional rates during the ebola crisis. Some of their economic shocks were related to common issues such as lack of access to...
Summary: The number of jobs in the temporary help services industry reached an all-time high of 2.9 million in May 2015, accounting for 2.4 percent of all private sector jobs in the U.S. economy.1 This short report looks at the latest official U.S. government statistics on the temporary help...
Migrant workers, who are often landless labourers, seek succour and refuge in night shelters mandated by the Supreme Court of India.
Examining the structural transformation in India and its developed states to know whether they have passed the Lewis turning point, this paper finds that there was slow structural change in labour markets at the national level. But states such as Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and...
A report released in June 2014 by Clean Clothes Campaign shows that garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey are paid poverty wages and many have to work second or third jobs to be able to live. More information about the Clean Clothes Campaign is on the website .
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.