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This Next City article, about KKPKP and SWaCH, has been posted here on WIEGO's website with permission from Next City . KKPKP is a trade union of recyclers and SWaCH is the workers' cooperative.
The Centre for Development Policy and Research is pleased to announce the publication of Development Viewpoint #80: “Documenting the Lack of Labour Rights in India’s Construction Sector”. This Development Viewpoint draws on research conducted in Delhi and Shanghai by the ESRC-DFID Research Project...
It is hard to diagnose and recognise an occupational disease (OD) because the diagnosis must prove the occupational factors which caused it.
The issue features an article on law and the self-employed in India (see pp 133-150, Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases ), co-authored by Marty Chen, International Coordinator of WIEGO, and Kamala Sankaran and Roopa Madhav who coordinated the WIEGO project on Law and Informality...
Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure insecurity. MHT has developed innovative mechanisms for screening the security of tenure of properties outside of the conventional housing finance space. Further...
Contents of this Special Edition of The Economist include: --Long-term living standards --Crises and their impact --Technology and jobs --Pensions --Migration and climate change
Development Viewpoint, No. 79
Development Viewpoint, No. 81
Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed. This article examines what legal reforms are needed for home-based producers, street vendors and waste pickers who together represent one-fifth of the urban workforce. The article...
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.