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Des milliers de travailleurs à domicile sous-traités ont contribué, directement ou indirectement, aux revendications dressées dans cette plate-forme. Celle-ci se fonde sur les informations recueillies auprès des travailleurs à domicile, au fil de nombreuses années, y compris la Déclaration de Delhi...
Taking the recent debate on austerity as a starting point, this paper discusses contradictions in current processes of neoliberalisation using the marketisation of elderly care in Switzerland as an example. Just as in other countries, an austerity rationality in public spending and the neoliberal...
Research co-financed by WIEGO, Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising
Video. Bruno Roelants, General Secretary of The European Confederation of Cooperatives and Worker-Owned Enterprises Active in Industry and Services (CECOP) explains the importance of cooperatives in the process of formalizing the informal economy at the tripartite Committee on the Transition from...
From 24-31 May 2015, a WIEGO team joined nearly 300 other delegates from 55 countries at the World Fair Trade Organization’s 13th Biennial Conference in Milan, Italy. Team members included Elaine Jones , Global Trade Director; Edwin Bett, Coordinator of the Kenya Fair Trade Network (KEFAT)...
Abstract: This dissertation provides new individual-level evidence of the labour market decisions made by an important but little studied segment of the labour market: industrial homeworkers. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods with data from unconventional sources, it tells us about...
Presentation from the 2005 Global Conference on Home-Based Workers (HBW) organized by WIEGO and HomeNet South Asia (HNSA).
Home-based work is a global phenomenon found in countries rich and poor across many industries. This document examines common myths about home-based workers and provides research-based facts.
Document in English, French, and Spanish. The WIEGO Law Project began with a pilot in India in 2007. It expanded to Colombia, Ghana, Thailand, Peru and South Africa. The project works with MBOs, primarily of street vendors, domestic workers, home-based workers and waste pickers, and supportive legal...
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.