TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aleksandria,Gocha
AU  - Chen,Martha A.
AU  - Dias,Sonia Maria
AU  - Eaton,Adrienne E.
AU  - Evans,Mary
AU  - Fine,Janice
AU  - Goldsmith,Mary R.
AU  - Hawkins,Daniel
AU  - Jgerenaia,Elza
AU  - King,Stephen Juan
AU  - Petrozziello,Allison J.
AU  - Reed,Pewee
AU  - Ryklief,Sahra
AU  - Schurman,Susan J.
AU  - Silva,Vera Alice Cardoso
AU  - Weeks,Milton A.
TI  - Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective 
SN  - 9781501707964
AV  - HD2341 
U1  - 331 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Employee rights
KW  - Informal sector (Economics)
KW  - Employees
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - Organizing
KW  - Labor movement
KW  - General Economics
KW  - Labor History
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - collective action, informal workers, informal labor markets, vulnerable workers, social movements, labor organizing, case studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I. FORMALIZING OR REFORMALIZING DISTANCED EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS --; 1. Port Workers in Colombia --; 2. Retail and Hospitality Workers in South Africa --; 3. Haitian Migrant Workers in the Dominican Republic --; 4. Domestic Workers in Uruguay --; 5. Beer Promoters in Cambodia --; 6. Informalized Government Workers in Tunisia --; Part II. SECURING RECOGNITION AND RIGHTS FOR THE SELF-EMPLOYED --; 7. Minibus Drivers in Georgia --; 8. Waste Pickers in Brazil --; 9. Street Vendors in Liberia --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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.ContributorsGocha Aleksandria, Georgian Trade Union ConfederationMartha A. Chen, Harvard University and WIEGO Sonia Maria Dias, WIEGO and Federal University of Minas Gerais, BrazilAdrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyMary Evans, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyJanice Fine, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyMary Goldsmith, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-XochimilcoDaniel Hawkins, National Trade Union School of ColombiaElza Jgerenaia, Labor and Employment Policy Department for the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs, Republic of GeorgiaStephen J. King, Georgetown UniversityAllison J. Petrozziello, UN Women and the Center for Migration Observation and Social DevelopmentPewee Reed, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Republic of LiberiaSahra Ryklief, International Federation of Workers' Education AssociationsSusan J. Schurman, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyVera Alice Cardoso Silva, Federal University of Minas Gerais, BrazilMilton Weeks, Devin Corporation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501707964
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501707964
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501707964/original
ER  -