Publications
June 2019
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Organizing Informal Workers into Trade Unions-A trade union guide
19 June 2019
The aim of this document is to offer practical guidance on how to address six institutional challenges in organizing the informal economy into trade unions. The guide relies on practical and important lessons on how to integrate the diverse group of informal economy workers and operators into the formal structures of the trade union movement. It also addresses the benefits and the challenges of organizing informal economy workers, and hereby enacts and supports the implementation of Recommendation No. 204.
August 2016
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Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy-Policy Brief
30 August 2016
The aim of this policy brief is to assist workers’ organizations in understanding and tackling the injustices and decent work deficits associated with employment in the informal economy. It provides information and proposes strategies that can be used to organize, protect and promote the rights and interests of informal economy workers. It has been produced following the adoption of the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204) by the International Labour Conference (ILC) in June 2015.
December 2013
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Organizing for Decent Work in the Informal Economy-Strategies, Methods and Practices
20 December 2013
Based largely on empirical studies, this book makes an invaluable contribution by presenting trade union organizing strategies, methods and practices in South Asian countries.