Precarious and Informal Work

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Sobre la edad minima para el trabajo y el trabajo forzoso
LANGUAGE: Spanish
WHAT’S INSIDE: A publication on the minimum age for work and child labour.

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: La situación de los derechos humanos de las personas recicladoras en América Latina: una mirada desde estándares internacionales
LANGUAGE: Spanish
WHAT’S INSIDE: This report examines the human rights situation of waste pickers in six countries in Latin America.

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Street Vendors and Public Space: Essential Insights on Key Trends and Solutions
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: An all-in-one curated e-collection featuring stories from New Delhi to New York on the everyday challenges street vendors face, with real case studies. The collection also features an interactive formula.

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Building Democratic Worker Organisation and Representation in the Informal Economy: A manual in two parts
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: A manual targeted towards those in the informal economy as an organising tool for the development of trade union and workers’ rights for those workers for whom they are most often denied.

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Future of Work for Tea Smallholders in Sri Lanka
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: This study highlights the tea smallholders sector, identifies decent work deficits, and indicates the future of work in the tea industry.

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Leaving No One Behind: Towards Sustainable Development of the Hill Country Tamil Community in Sri Lanka
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: A document outlining a vision for transformative social change of the Tamil Plantation Community across a range of Sustainable Development Goals in relation to issues of poverty, health and nutrition.

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Organizing Informal Workers into Trade Unions. A trade union guide
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: A guide which offers practical guidance on how to address six institutional challenges in organising the informal economy into trade unions.

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: A report and short documentary film documenting the illegal activities of employment agencies in the Philippines and Hong Kong, and the failure to protect the rights of Filipino migrant domestic workers.

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: The Power of Informal Transport Workers
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: A booklet which looks at the informal transport industry and the challenges facing workers, trade unions and organisational models

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Summary report: Case studies of collective bargaining and representative forums for street traders
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: A case study to gain an understanding of participatory statutory representational systems at local government level, to develop a bargaining forum model for street vendors and other informal traders

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Rotten Fruit: Tesco Profits as Women Workers Pay a High Price
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: A behind-the-scenes look at the conditions of marginalised women workers who labour on fruit farms in the Western Cape accredited to supply UK retail giant Tesco

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Social Solidarity Economy: Basic training module for organisations
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE? A guide for worker educators to use in training on the social solidarity economy, for street vendors, informal market vendors and hawkers

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Our Rights
LANGUAGE: Indonesian

THEME: Precarious and Informal Work
TITLE: Going for Broke: A case study of Labour Brokerage on Fruit Farms in Grabouw
LANGUAGE: English
WHAT’S INSIDE: A focus on the high levels of labour rights violations experienced by farm workers who are contracted through labour brokers