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There is good news for waste pickers. The lakhs of nondescript women with a waste-bag hung over their shoulders, collecting garbage from roads and dumpsites is a common sight across cities in India.
The poor face many challenges in accessing health services. However, argues Laura Alfers , WIEGO’s Deputy Director of Social Protection, the working poor, especially informal workers, “experience particular barriers to access based on the nature and place of their work, and may have occupational...
Final report for the Technology and the Future of Work Project undertaken by Practical Action and WIEGO with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Twenty Years and Time for Action Event Celebrating Home-Based Workers , an international event in March 2016, was organized by HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) and WIEGO. Held in Ahmedabad, India, it marked the 20th anniversary of the Home Work Convention (C177) and shined a spotlight on the lives and work...
Revaben and her husband Narsingbhai sell vegetables from the sidewalk along one of eight new model roads in Ahmedabad, India. Between about 9:00 in the morning and 9:00 in the evening, they sit on upside-down plastic crates amid huge mounds of fresh ginger, peppers, garlic, cilantro and green beans...
From the publisher: " Middle India and Rural-Urban Development explores the socio-economic conditions of an ‘India’ that falls between the cracks of macro-economic analysis, sectoral research and micro-level ethnography. Its focus, the ‘middle India’ of small towns, is relatively unknown in...
As a livelihood, street vending is a viscious trap of poverty, especially for women workers. It is indicative of low income, physical strain, continuous struggle for space and recognition, harassment, and exploitation. This paper is an attempt to assess the various livelihood challenges a women...
This talking album, Chindhiwalli Women: A community of migrant women barters old clothes for utensils in Mumbai , was created by Dipti Bapat,
Afghanistan's hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links between the economic and political marketplaces in the country, and the pervasive rent-seeking practices of informal and formal power holders. This paper, based on a...
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.