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Year: 2010
Title: Women’s Organising Strategies
Journal: Bargaining Monitor 24(173)
Format: pdf file
Pages: 16
This edition of Bargaining Monitor focuses on the organising strategies of women workers. The LRS Gender Programme works with gender structures and trade union women activist to highlight and learn from existing strategies and create new strategies that encourage gender equality and organise women in the trade union movement. This edition of Bargaining Monitor contains five short articles to share these strategies. The articles discuss the significance of Mall Committees for organising women mall workers; organising and mobilising among women workers who commuted by train; the ‘Decisions for Life’ Trade Union Campaign which targeted young women; a farm worker leader’s reflections and the Korean Women’s Trade Union (KWTU) strategies’ for organising women.

Year: 2009
Authors: Anthony Yaw Baah and Herbert Jauch (editors)
Title: Chinese Investments in Africa: a Labour Perspective
Format: book
Pages: 541
The book examines some of China’s main investments in Africa, including the nature of investment, the sectors in which Chinese companies operate; the economic impact of the investment as well as labour relations and working conditions. Country-case studies were carried out in Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya and Malawi. The intention is to provide Africa’s labour movement with a comprehensive picture of the current state of Africa’s relations with China and how Chinese investments affect African workers. This book is essential for African workers and trade unions confronting the challenges associated with Chinese investments and trade on the continent.

Year: 2009
Author: Christine Bonner
Title: Organising in the Informal Economy: Resource Books for Organisers
Format: 6 booklets
A series of six resource booklets published by WIEGO in response to requests from unions and worker organisations for practical ideas on how to organise workers in the informal economy. The booklets are:
• Recruiting informal workers into democratic workers’ organisations
• Recruiting and maintaining a democratic organisation of informal workers
• Handling the day-to-day problems of informal worker
• Collective negotiations for informal workers
• Handling disputes between informal workers and those in power
• Collective action for informal workers
These booklets give organisers practical ideas and what needs to be done and how to do it. Useful for all those involved in the informal sector.

Year: 2006
Title: Respect and Rights: Protection for Domestic/Household Workers: Report of the International Conference held in Amsterdam, 8 – 10 November 2006
Format: Conference report
Pages: 117
This book is the result of an action conference held in 2006 in Amsterdam at the headquarters of the FNV trade union federation of the Netherlands. The participants were from a wide range of domestic/household workers organisations, trade unions and support NGOs worldwide. They came up with recommendations as part of the global effort to achieve better protection for domestic/household workers. It includes suggestions for action, actions around the world, practical experiences around the world, ILO proposals and migrant and child domestic workers. An essential tool for anyone working towards the recognition of domestic workers’ rights.

Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics: Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines

The book is published by Lexington Books (a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.) in partnership with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Joel F. Ariate Jr., Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo, Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, Ma. Glenda S. Lopez Wui, Ronald C. Molmisa, and Sharon M. Quinsaat are the contributors to the volume.

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Conceptualising and defining the informal economy
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01 June 2008, PDF document
Worker education activities and materials on the informal economy.

01 October 2008, Pal DVD
Organising Workers In The Informal Economy - A Resource Pack for Worker Educators

All around the world, many millions of workers are forced to survive outside what would be regarded as bare minimum basic rights and legal protection associated with work, and instead are in the so-called informal economy.

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