{"product_id":"9781501707957","title":"Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInformal Workers and Collective Action\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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. I\u003cem\u003enformal Workers and Collective Action\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e Gocha Aleksandria, Georgian Trade Union Confederation\u003cbr\u003e Martha A. Chen, Harvard University and WIEGO \u003cbr\u003e Sonia Maria Dias, WIEGO and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil\u003cbr\u003e Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey\u003cbr\u003e Mary Evans, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey\u003cbr\u003e Janice Fine, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey\u003cbr\u003e Mary Goldsmith, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco\u003cbr\u003e Daniel Hawkins, National Trade Union School of Colombia\u003cbr\u003e Elza Jgerenaia, Labor and Employment Policy Department for the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs, Republic of Georgia\u003cbr\u003eStephen J. King, Georgetown University\u003cbr\u003e Allison J. Petrozziello, UN Women and the Center for Migration Observation and Social Development\u003cbr\u003e Pewee Reed, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Republic of Liberia\u003cbr\u003e Sahra Ryklief, International Federation of Workers' Education Associations\u003cbr\u003e Susan J. Schurman, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey\u003cbr\u003e Vera Alice Cardoso Silva, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil\u003cbr\u003e Milton Weeks, Devin Corporation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127163207920,"sku":"9781501707957","price":20.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/381706182.png?v=1738898577","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501707957","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}