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Publications

Waste Pickers

Achankeng, Eric 2003. "Globalization, Urbanization and Municipal Solid Waste Management in Africa." African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific 2003 Conference Proceedings, African on a Global Stage, October 1-3, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. (pdf file 1.9 Mb)

Allen, Charlotte and Elísio Jossias (with contributions from Sonia Dias) 2011 "Mapping of the Policy Context and Catadores Organizations in Maputo, Mozambique" WIEGO Organizing Series. (pdf file 2.1 Mb)

Benson, Koni, and Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima 2010 "Organizing on the Streets A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town" International Labour Research & Information Group (ILRIG), WIEGO Organizing Series. (pdf file 953 Kb)

Budlender, Debbie 2005 "Organising waste management workers: the South African experience" ILO (pdf file 469 Kb)

Chamane, Musa. (2009) "South Africa’s Waste Pickers Creating Jobs and Fighting Poverty." South African Labour Bulletin. Vol. 33, No. 2, June/July 2009 (Word doc. 546 Kb)

Chikarmane, Poornima and Laxmi Narayan. 2009. Rising from the Waste– Organising Wastepickers in India, Thailand and the Philippines. Committee for Asian Women (pdf file 508 Kb)

Chikarmane, Poornima and Laxmi Narayan. 2005. "Case study on Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (Trade Union of Waste-pickers)." (pdf file 384 Kb)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. March 2011 Recovering resources, creating opportunities Integrating the informal sector into solid waste management.

Dias, Sonia M. (2006) WASTE & CITIZENSHIP FORUMS – ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIMITATIONS. Solid waste, health and the Millennium Development Goals CWG – WASH Workshop 2006, 1 – 5 February in Kolkata, India. (pdf file 1.39 Mb)

Medina, Martin 2005. "Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries." Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005. (Word doc. 192 Kb)

Medina, Martin (2000). "Scavenger Cooperatives in Asia and Latin America." (pdf file 128 Kb)

Samson, Melanie. 2003. Dumping on Women: Gender and Privitisation of Waste Management. South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU). (pdf file 7.55 Mb)

Samson, Melanie 2008. Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World. (pdf file 1.32 Mb)

Samson, Melanie 2009. "Wasted Citizenship? Reclaimers and the Privatised Expansion of the Public Sphere." Africa Development, Vol. XXXIV, Nos 3 & 4, 2009, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa 2009 (pdf file 90 Kb)

Samson, Melanie (2009). "Reclaiming Livelihoods: The role of reclaimers in municipal waste management systems." (pdf file 1.1 mb)

Samson, Melanie (2010). "Organizing Reclaimers in Tshwane, South Africa Lessons from Top Down and Bottom Up Experiences" WIEGO Organizing Series. (pdf file 1.5 Mb)

Theron, Jan (2010). "Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa" WIEGO Organizing Series. (pdf file 2.55 Mb)

India's poorest workers get organized (SEWA) ILO website. SEWA has not only helped thousands find a way out of the poverty trap, it has given them access to financial services, and a way of making themselves heard by Government.

Report of Conference Proceedings: Waste Pickers without Frontiers First World Conference and Third Latin-American Conference of Waste-Pickers, Bogota, Colombia, 1-4 March 2008. (pdf file 2.7 mb).

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Street Vendors

Bhowmik, Sharit K. 2005. "Street Vendors in Asia : A Review." Economic and Political Weekly, 28 May- 4 June. (pdf file 64 Kb)

Bhowmik, Sharit K. 2003. "Urban Responses to Street Trading: India." Paper for panel entitled "Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South Africa" at the Urban Research Symposium on Urban Development for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction, World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2003. (pdf file 64 Kb)

Budlender, Debbie 2003 "Street Traders & their Organisations in South Africa" ILO. (pdf file 627 Kb)

Çelik, Ercüment. 2010. Street Traders: A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Publishing. Read Pat Horn’s Review.

Karumbidza, Blessing. 2011. Criminalising the Livelihoods of the Poor The impact of formalising informal trading on female and migrant traders in Durban.

Mitullah, Winnie. 2004. "A Review of Street Trade in Africa." Unpublished manuscript. Cambridge, MA : WIEGO. (pdf file 160 Kb)

Mitullah, Winnie. 2003. "Street Vending in African Cities: A Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya , Cote D'Ivoire , Ghana , Zimbabwe , Uganda and South Africa." Background Case Study for World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone. (pdf file 224 Kb)

Peron, James. 2002. How Property Rights for Street Vendors Can Create Prosperity

Roever, Sally. 2006 Case Study Lima. In Un Habitat’s: Innovative Policies for the Urban Informal Economy. (pdf file 1.95 Mb)

Roever, Sally. 2006. Enforcement and Compliance in Lima’s Street Markets. (pdf file 2 Mb) World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Working Papers series RP2005/16.

Roever, Sally. 2006. "Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities." (pdf file 352 Kb)

Skinner, Caroline. 2008. "Street Trade in Africa." School of Development Studies (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Working Paper No. 51. (pdf file 256 Kb)

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Home-based Workers

Carr, Marilyn and Martha Chen. 2000. "Homebased Women Workers in the Informal Sector in South Asia: Creating an Enabling Environment." Background Paper for Regional Policy Workshop on Home-Based Work, September 2000. (pdf file 32 Kb)

Chen, Martha Alter, Jennefer Sebstad and Lesley O'Connell 1999. "Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Homebased Workers." World Development¸ Vol. 27, No. 3. (pdf file 96 Kb)

Delaney, Annie 2004 "Campaigns at Work - A guide to campaigning for homeworker organisations" HomeWorkers Worldwide. (pdf file 1.16 Mb)

Mather, Celia 2010. "We Are Workers Too! Organizing Home-Based Workers in the Global Economy" WIEGO Organizing Series. (pdf file 3 Mb)

Rusling, Sara 2010. Approaches to Basic Service Delivery for the Working Poor: Assessing the Impact of the Parivartan Slum Upgrading Programme in Ahmedabad, India. (pdf file 658 Kb)

Unni, Jeemol and Uma Rani 2004."Home-based Work in India : A Disappearing Continuum of Dependence?" Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference, Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors, 17-18 September 2004, Helsinki , Finland. (pdf file 224 Kb)

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Global Economic Crisis

Asian Development Bank 2009. "The Global Economic Crisis Challenges for Developing Asia and ADB’s Response", April 2009. (pdf file 2.3 Mb)

Breman, Jan (juni, 2009). Een permanente staat van crisis. Amsterdam. (pdf file 96 Kb)

Economic Policy Institute’s State of Working America Website features a comprehensive set of charts on income, jobs, poverty, and other economic data.

Devaki, Jain and Elson, Diane (2010) Vision for a Better World: From Economic Crisis to Equality. A UNDP Gender Team publication. (pdf file 372 Kb)

Horn, Zoe. 2011. "Coping with Crises: Lingering Recession, Rising Inflation and the Informal Workforce". Inclusive Cities Report. (pdf file 1.15 Mb)

Horn, Zoe. 2010. "No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers". Inclusive Cities Report. (pdf file 2.59 Mb)

Ravallio,Martin. 2008. "Bailing out the World’s Poorest." Development Research Group, World Bank, Oct 2008. (pdf file 132 Kb)

"OECD Employment Outlook 2008". (pdf file 5.2 Mb)

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Informal Economy

Bosse, Claire 2005. "Ten Trade Union Actions to strengthen the status of workers in the informal economy" WCL. (pdf file 1.16 Mb)

Chen, Martha. 2006. "Self Employed Women: A Profile of SEWA's Membership." Ahmedabad: Self-Employed Women's Association. (pdf file 3.4 Mb)

Chen, Martha, Joann Vanek and James Heintz. 2006. "Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global Picture." Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 21, May 27, 2006. (pdf file 64Kb pdf)

Chen, Martha Alter, Joann Vanek, Francie Lund, James Heintz with Christine Bonner and Renana Jhabvala. 2005. "The Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty." New York: UNIFEM. (pdf file 1.49Mb)

Chen, Martha Alter and Marilyn Carr. 2004. "Globalization, Social Exclusion and Work: With Special Reference to Informal Employment and Gender." International Labour Review: Special Issue on More Equitable Globalization, Vol. 143, Nos. 1-2, Geneva: ILO. (pdf file 384 Kb)

Chen, Martha. 2003 "Rethinking the Informal Economy." Seminar, Vol. 531, November 2003. (pdf file 128Kb)

Date-Bah, Eugenia 2006 "Enhancing African Trade Unions’ Capacity for promoting Gender Equality Module 3: Gender & The Informal Economy" ILO, OATUU. (pdf file 126 Kb)

Dicks, Crystal 2006. "Building Democratic Worker Organisation and Representation in the Informal Economy" (IFWE) (pdf file 791 Kb)

Horn, Pat. 2004. "Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment." Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference, Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors, 17-18 September 2004, Helsinki , Finland. (pdf file 96 Kb)

Mather, Celia 2007 "All for one = One for All. A Gender Equality Guide for Trade Unionists Section 2". Making Unions more Women-Friendly International Union of Foodworkers. (pdf file 6.79 Mb)

Smith, Stirling 2006. "Lets Organise!" ICFTU, ILO, ICA (pdf file 2.93 Mb)

Tchami, Guy 2007 "Handbook on Cooperatives for use by Workers’ Organisations" ILO, Geneva (pdf file 417 Kb)

Valodia, Imraan, Richard Devey and Caroline Skinner. 2005. "The State of the Informal Economy." In Sakhela Buhlungu, John Daniel, Roger Southall, and Jessica Lutchman, Eds. State of the Nation: South Africa 2005-2006. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press. (pdf file 352Kb)

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Inclusive Urban Planning

Lund, Francie. 2003. "People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City." Paper for panel entitled "Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South Africa" at the Urban Research Symposium on Urban Development for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction, World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2003. (pdf file 64 Kb)

Stanwix, Benjamin (2009). Status of Urban Slums in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Mahila Housing SEWA Trust, October 2009. (pdf file 819 Kb)

United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 2007. A look at the Urban Informal Economy. "UN Habitat Debate June 2007." Vol 13. No.2. (pdf file 1.6 Mb)

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Organizing and Social Protection

Devenish, Annie, and Caroline Skinner. 2004. "Organising Workers in the Informal Economy: The Experience of the Self Employed Women’s Union, 1994-2004." (pdf file 160 Kb)

Gallin, Dan 2001. "Propositions on Trade Unions and Informal Employment in Times of Globalization." Antipode. (pdf file 128 Kb)

Lund, Francie and Jillian Nicholson. 2006. "Tools for Advocacy: Social Protection for Informal Workers." Cambridge: WIEGO and Homenet Thailand. (pdf file 352 Kb)

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Statistics and Data

Devey, Richard, Caroline Skinner and Imraan Valodia. 2003. "Informal Economy Employment Data In South Africa: A Critical Analysis." Paper presented at the Trade and Industry Policy Secretariat (TIPS) and Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) Forum 2003, 8 - 10 September 2003, Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa. (pdf file 288 Kb)

Heintz, James and Joann Vanek. 2007. "Employment, the Informal Sector, and Poverty: Data and Analytical Challenges." For the China-India Labour Market Research Design Conference Cambridge, MA (pdf file 160 Kb)

ILO. 2002. "On Measuring Place of Work." Geneva: ILO (pdf file 384 Kb)

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Publications | Web Sites | Additional Resources

Web Sites

Partner Websites

Asiye Etafuleni (AeT)
http://www.marketsofwarwick.co.za/asiye-etafuleni

AVINA Foundation
http://www.avina.net

HomeNet SouthAsia
http://www.homenetsouthasia.org

HomeNet South East Asia
http://www.homenetseasia.org/home.html

Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP)
http://www.wastepickerscollective.org/

The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Waste Pickers http://www.redrecicladores.net

Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
http://www.sewa.org