Format:
viii, 284 Seiten
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1 Diagramm
ISBN:
9781501705564
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9781501705571
Content:
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.
Content:
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.
Content:
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 Autónoma 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 GeorgiaStephen J. King, Georgetown University Allison J.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Port Workers in Colombia
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Retail and Hospitality Workers in South Africa
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Haitian Migrant Workers in the Dominican Republic
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Domestic Workers in Uruguay
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Beer Promoters in Cambodia
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Informalized Government Workers in Tunisia
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Minibus Drivers in Georgia
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Waste Pickers in Brazil
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Street Vendors in Liberia
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Conclusion
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, pdf ISBN 978-1-5017-0796-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Beschäftigungsstruktur
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Schwarzarbeit
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Illegale Beschäftigung
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Geringfügige Beschäftigung
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Subsistenz
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Fallstudiensammlung
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