Mobilizing at the Margins: Comparing Informal Worker Organizing Around the World

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Mobilizing at the Margins: Comparing Informal Worker Organizing Around the World

Tuesday, July 15, 2014: 3:30 PM-5:20 PM

Room: Booth 41

RC44 Labor Movements (host committee)

Language: English

Session Organizer:

Sarah MOSOETSA, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

729.1

Wasted Opportunities - the Production of Power and the Challenges to Organizing Informal Reclaimers (Oral Presentation)
Melanie SAMSON, Post Doctoral Fellow, South Africa

729.2

Legislation and Its Discontents: Consequences of the Peruvian Household Workers Law (Oral Presentation)
Katherine MAICH, University of California, Berkeley, USA

729.3

Organising the ‘Invisible' Sector: A Case Study on Household Workers in Lima (Oral Presentation)
Merita JOKELA, University of Turku, Finland; Maaret JOKELA-PANSINI, University of Bern, Switzerland

729.4

Invisibility As a Barrier to Collectivity: Argentinian and Indian Homeworkers (Oral Presentation)
Rosaria BURCHIELLI, La Trobe University, Australia; Annie DELANEY, Victoria University, Australia

729.5

Invisibility As Strategy? Understanding the Perceptions Toward Organising Amongst Foreign Farm Workers in Musina, South Africa (Oral Presentation)
Zaheera JINNAH, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

729.6

Organizing Female Workers In The Informal Sector: A Case Study Of Learn-Dharavi (Oral Presentation)
Yanick NOISEUX, Université de Montréal, Canada

729.7

New Configurations of Informal Work in Brazil: Besides the Informal, Short of Rights (Distributed Paper)
Fábio SANCHEZ, Universidade Federal de Säo Carlos, Brazil

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