Organizing Strategies for Informal Economy Workers

Organizing Strategies for Informal Economy Workers

Published by AMRC and Asian Labour Exchange

How do you organize those with no formal workplace? This 33-page book was written as learning material for workers and unions, about organizing workers in the informal sector. The major concepts are reproductive economy, which is the economy of the family and private sphere, and capitalist patriarchy.

Several cases of organizing efforts by informal economy workers are given, drawn from India, Indonesia and Hong Kong. The main problem facing these workers, who are all women, is the failure of the law to recognize them as workers. Yet by various means, including spontaneous actions, building alliances with dismissed workers, and mobilizing the community, organizing informal workers is achieved.