Informal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of
collective action to improve the status and working conditions of
informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha
A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the
types of organizations that represent the interests of informal
workers and the lessons that may be learned from the examples
presented in the book. Cases from a diverse set of
countries-Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic,
Georgia, Liberia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Uruguay-focus on two
broad types of informal workers: "waged" workers, including port
workers, beer promoters, hospitality and retail workers, domestic
workers, low-skilled public sector workers, and construction
workers; and self-employed workers, including street vendors, waste
recyclers, and minibus drivers.These cases demonstrate that workers
and labor organizations around the world are rediscovering the
lessons of early labor organizers on how to aggregate individuals'
sense of injustice into forms of collective action that achieve a
level of power that can yield important changes in their work and
lives. Informal Workers and Collective Action makes a strong
argument that informal workers, their organizations, and their
campaigns represent the leading edge of the most significant change
in the global labor movement in more than a century.Contributors
Gocha Aleksandria, Georgian Trade Union Confederation Martha A.
Chen, Harvard University and WIEGO Sonia Maria Dias, WIEGO and
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Adrienne E. Eaton,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Mary Evans, Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey Janice Fine, Rutgers, the State
University of New Jersey Mary Goldsmith, Universidad Autonoma
Metropolitana-Xochimilco Daniel Hawkins, National Trade Union
School of Colombia Elza Jgerenaia, Labor and Employment Policy
Department for the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs,
Republic of Georgia Stephen J. King, Georgetown University Allison
J. Petrozziello, UN Women and the Center for Migration Observation
and Social Development Pewee Reed, Ministry of Commerce and
Industry, Republic of Liberia Sahra Ryklief, International
Federation of Workers' Education Associations Susan J. Schurman,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Vera Alice Cardoso
Silva, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Milton Weeks,
Devin Corporation
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