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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWorkers’ rights in informal economiesThe world’s informal workers are constantly at risk of falling into poverty, but a burgeoning movement is searching...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOrganising precarious workers in AfricaWorker organisations in Africa are beginning to cross the divide between the formal and informal economy.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPrecarious workers need Asia’s unionsAsia’s unions could grow their power while helping informal and precarious workers to secure their labour rights,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe struggle for work with dignity through broad campaigns and social alliancesImproving the lot of global supply chain workers involves not only organising local and migrant workers to pressure...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘Even my husband envies my freedom’A small basic income transformed the lives of these women in rural India. Imagine what it could do on a national scale.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOrganising precarious workers: a view from the southA global labour movement is possible if traditional trade unions learn to see informal workers for the enormous...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIn search of a sane economyCould degrowth, community, and basic income create a sane economy? An interview with one of the godfathers of the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhy not give people money for nothing?Needing to work for your money is central to modern morality, but should it be? An interview with Liz Fouksman, a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income, not tied benefits, for Australia’s First NationsCould a basic income finally bring an end to Australia’s paternalistic treatment of First Nations peoples? An...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income denied in OntarioA change in government brought a basic income pilot in Canada to an abrupt halt, causing chaos and turmoil amongst...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe radical combination of degrowth and basic incomeWe work too hard to produce too much stuff, and we’re destroying the planet in the process. An interview with...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income is paving a path to freedom in KenyaKenya is running the world’s most ambitious basic income pilot yet, but will its results be enough to forge a whole...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex workers seek rights-minded funderFunding sex worker activism is no longer taboo.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe path to prioritising safety for sex workers in CaliforniaThe groups that came together to transform sex worker safety in California only agreed on one thing: violence...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat’s so unacceptable about sex work? A framework for sex worker rights advocacyAn ILO framework can be used to push for including sex work within labour protection systems. Let’s put it to use.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRights, rescues and resistance in the global movement for sex workers’ rights – introducing the seriesThe rights of sex workers are slowly gaining more recognition, but far too many still need to keep their heads down...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySelling sex amidst the Philippine drug warSex workers in the Philippines have always been vulnerable to police violence. President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income can transform women’s livesWe gave a basic income to thousands of India’s citizens and the results were better than we ever could have hoped.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income bows to the masterUniversal basic income claims to be a radical and emancipatory way forward, but it only confirms the domination of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFeminist politics and a case for basic incomeWages do not compensate workers, and especially women, for most of the work they do. A basic income could change that.