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Martha Chen, International Coordinator of the WIEGO network, speaks about the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), "the mother ship of all of the organizations of informal workers around the world," and how the organization has inspired others for many years.
Overview of laws and demographics concerning informal workers, with an emphasis on access to social protection
This presentation shares information about Social Protection work by SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association).
A blog post by Witchaya Pruecksamars about community efforts in Bangkok, Thailand, including finding lawyers to help informal workers. To learn more about the Rockefeller Foundation's Informal City Dialogues project, click here .
Overview of laws and policies governing hawkers in Hong Kong, China
This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. the paper investigates conditions promoting transformation by state-industry. Decomposition exercises find that both within and between adjustments for state-industries weakly reduce unorganized...
SEWA has for a number of years been involved in the participatory design of work equipment prototypes for various sectors of the informal economy with the aim of both protecting worker's health and improving their productivity. This is an impact study of prototypes developed for 5 sectors (garment...
Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013.
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.