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By keeping corporations accountable for the waste they produce and providing affordable goods and services to working class people, recyclers and vendors in NYC are demonstrating an alternative to the status quo model of city-making that favours a few elite interests to the detriment of the majority...
This brief compiles statistics on street vendors and market traders in 12 countries: Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, Türkiye and Uganda. In most of the countries, the overwhelming majority of market traders and an even higher share of street...
It is a myth that cooperatives, which put people at the centre, are not a viable alternative to the current economic system because they lack productivity. Improving working conditions and people’s well-being favour productivity – not the other way around.
To provide workers and workers’ organizations, including unions, the tools to use existing ILO conventions and recommendations creatively to elicit new interpretations from the ILO supervisory system which broaden their scope to the obstacles confronting workers in the informal economy, the...
How close collaboration between homeworker organizations and key allies secured a huge victory: for the first time, EU legislation on corporate sustainability will protect the human rights of all supply chain workers, including homeworkers.
The 2024 International Labour Conference (ILC) will include a general discussion on decent work and the care economy. WIEGO, along with sister organizations, will advocate for recognition of care as a public good, the right to care services and social protection for all workers and for social...
The 112th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) is being held at the International Labour Organization (ILO) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2024. Government officials, trade union representatives and employers’ associations from 187 countries gather every year in Geneva...
This webinar –co-hosted by UNU-WIDER and WIEGO– will serve to launch the book "COVID-19 and the Informal Economy: Impact, Recovery and the Future" and feature reflections and a Q&A with the book editors and authors.
Desafios dos sindicatos na organização e representação das pessoas trabalhadoras em emprego informal
Com a intenção de aprofundar o conhecimento e a compreensão da relação entre sindicatos e pessoas trabalhadoras em empregos informais, a CUT Brasil e a WIEGO realizaram uma pesquisa sobre “Desafios e respostas dos sindicatos na organização e representação das pessoas trabalhadoras em emprego...
To deepen knowledge and understanding of the relationship between trade unions and workers in informal employment, CUT Brasil and WIEGO conducted a survey on “Trade unions' challenges and responses in organizing and representing workers in informal employment.”
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.