Occupational Group: Waste Pickers

Producing Privatization: Re-articulating Race, Gender, Class and Space

Mapping the Invisible and Real ‘African’ Economy: Urban E-waste CircuitryUrban Geography

Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil

In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited...

Report on Scrap Collectors, Scrap Traders, and Recycling Enterprises in Pune

Can Waste-Picking Be a Good Career?

This Next City article, about KKPKP and SWaCH, has been posted here on WIEGO’s website with permission from Next City.

Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....

Waste Pickers and Cities

Resumo dos principais achados – Cooperacao entre trabalhadores na economia informal: Um foco nos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras domiciliares e catadores e catadoras de material reciclavel

The World’s Scavengers – Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Rescaling the State, Restructuring Social Relations