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Abstract: The economic liberalization policies that started in the early 1980s marked a turn in Turkey’s growth strategy by shifting it from import substitution to export orientation. Since then, the garment industry has been one of the top exporters, drawing on women as the main suppliers of...
Reducing, reusing, and recycling municipal waste is one of the easiest and most effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also provides gainful employment to millions of people in the developing world, mostly in the informal sector (“wastepickers” 1). Yet rather than supporting these...
From the Introduction: This paper provides an account of the development of the employment relationship in Kenya, noting the role of public policy and the environment that nurtures social dialogue and collective bargaining in the country. The paper takes the view that, progressively, discernible...
From the website: The Multilateral Cooperation Department (MULTILATERALS) leads, coordinates and promotes the ILO’s active involvement in the UN system and its cooperation with other multilateral organizations. The department collaborates closely with the ILO Offices in New York, Washington and in...
Kagad Kach Kashtakari Panchayat is a trade union. It brings together waste pickers, itinerant waste buyers, waste collectors and other informal recyclers. KKPKP recovers, collects, categorises and sells scrap materials such as corrugated board, paper, plastics, metals and glass for recycling. KKPKP...
In the last decade, several influential scholars have rigorously worked on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the poor in the cities of the South. But they have yet to provide a comprehensive account of how and why some groups in the margins are seen to successfully negotiate with the new...
Unpublished paper written for Graduate Institute, Annual Lecture, Geneva, 23 September 2010
From the website ( About the Social Protection Department) : The objective of the Social Protection Department is the enhanced capacity of constituents, decision makers and stakeholders, to design sustainable social security schemes, and to manage and administer them more efficiently, with a view to...
The main objective of the Social Security Policy and Development Branch (SOC/POL), is to assist Member States and constituents in the design, reform and implementation of social security policies based on the principles embodied in international labour standards and to contribute to the effective...
The ISSA Social Security Web portal provides comprehensive information, news, data and analysis on social security developments worldwide.
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.