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This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers, street vendors, waste pickers and domestic workers. The methods discussed can be used in designing questions in surveys to collect data on these workers. It...
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Research and Policy Brief No. 30
Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their...
From the review: "This collection of essays and presentations by Dan Gallin starting from his youth as a young socialist, through his 30 years as General Secretary of the IUF and his continued involvement in new forms of worker organisation after his retirement, provides an insightful overview of...
From the UN Women website: "Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights, UN Women’s flagship report, shows that, all too often, women’s economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit into a ‘man’s world’. But, it is possible to move...
The report explores in detail what the economy would look like if it were truly effective for women, for the benefit of everyone. The report also reflects on how the alternative economic agenda outlined in it would not only create more equitable societies, but would also generate new sectors of...
This report captures the results achieved by 28 projects operating under FLOW, that received additional funding during 2013-14. The results are discussed per theme and the report includes the three complementary themes as well, that were added just for the additional funding. In the report, you will...
The aim of this paper is to review the various policy options, approaches and measures that can be used to address informal entrepreneurship. To do this, it first reviews four possible policy options, namely taking no action, eradicating informal entrepreneurship, moving formal entrepreneurship into...
Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades. This brief considers informal cross-border couriers from Zimbabwe, who operate between Zimbabwe and South Africa. It considers the origins of their occupation, their...
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.