In the third of a series of photo essays from Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, Carlin Carr explores how workers in Bangkok’s informal economy came together in a collective movement to advocate for their labour rights.
In the second in a series of photo essays from Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, Leslie Vryenhoek and photographer Jonathan Torgovnik explore the lives of domestic workers in South Africa. Their tales highlight the advances and challenges of bringing workers' organisations into this traditionally hidden form of urban economic activity.
Over the next few weeks, The Global Urbanist, in collaboration with WIEGO will publish six photo essays that take us inside the daily lives of women working in the informal economy.
Carlin Carr introduces members of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in Ahmedabad. The organisation has been supporting informal workers to improve their working conditions.
Two years after the introduction of Permitted Development Rights, Zoe Green argues that the policy is threatening the local creative economy in UK cities by pricing out small and medium sized enterprises.
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Zoe Green is a senior planning consultant with Atkins Ltd, with experience in policy and masterplanning projects for both private and public sector…
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