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Up to 76% of India’s household waste goes to landfills, open dumps and water bodies, even though 85% of it is recyclable! In April 2016, India launched updated nationwide rules for Solid Waste Management, a key part of which includes segregation (sorting of waste) in all houses.
El borde de la carretera, los mercados públicos, los hogares y vertederos: todos éstos son sitios donde los trabajadores informales trabajan, y todos son sitios que marcan una intersección no examinada entre la salud y seguridad urbana y la salud y seguridad ocupacional. La salud y seguridad...
Bords de route, marchés publics, maisons, décharges... Autant de lieu de travail des travailleurs informels, tous des lieux non examinés, mais où se croisent la santé et sécurité urbaine d’une part et, d’autre part, la santé et sécurité au travail (SST). En général, celle-ci constitue un domaine...
New Solutions is a journal of occupational health that has a progressive worker-oriented focus. The August 2016 special issue focuses on the health and safety of informal workers. Guest Editors are Francie Lund (link to Francie’s profile) and Rajen Naidoo. A number of papers are written by familiar...
Abstract: Informal employment represents more than half of nonagricultural employment in most developing regions, contributes to the overall economy, and provides pathways to reduction of poverty and inequality. Support to the informal economy should include the expansion of occupational health and...
Abstract: The majority of workers in the global south, and increasing numbers in the north, work in the informal economy. Most are de facto or de jure excluded from services and regulation of occupational health and safety. Significant recent improvements in classification of status of informal...
Abstract: Large numbers of workers worldwide work informally. Yet the discipline and practice of occupational health and safety covers largely only formal workers, in formal work places. A comprehensive approach would have to take into account specific hazards faced by those in different occupations...
Abstract: This article focuses on an action-research project which is attempting to extend occupational health and safety to a group of street traders in Durban, South Africa, using a variety of different (and sometimes unconventional) institutional actors. The article is written from the...
Introduction: There is great diversity in the informal economy—of occupation, place of work, status in employment, extent of regulation, and access to health services, among other things. Many articles in this special edition have described the extent of risks and hazards in different sectors of the...
Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India, to reflect on the power dynamics in control of public space. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), a public body, has used public resources to facilitate and...
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.