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Description of  Informal Workers and Organized Action: Narratives From the Global South

This book utilizes the School to Work Transition Survey (SWTS) of the ILO to discuss what shapes an individual workers decision to participate in unionization and how her working condition is affected by that.. There remains a disconnect as far as our understanding of the relationship between the labours choice to unionize as individual actor and the broader socioeconomic, political and cultural context of that choice, is concerned. Using the SWTS data, the book focuses on the identification of the correlates of workers propensity to unionize, the outcomes of unionizing and their synthesis with the wider political economy context to arrive at stylized patterns in the way informal workers exercise their agency. Read more