TY - JOUR
T1 - The Unexpected Power of Informal Workers in the Public Square
T2 - A Comparison of Mexican and US Organizing Models
AU - Sarmiento, Hugo
AU - Tilly, Chris
AU - De La Garza Toledo, Enrique
AU - Gayosso Ramírez, José Luis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2016 International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face formidable structural obstacles to securing their rights as workers. Despite their apparent vulnerability, these informal workers have built perhaps the most powerful informal worker organizations in their countries. In this article, we explore and explain to the extent possible the sources, forms, and limits of this unexpected power. We explore organizational and strategic commonalities as well as differences and seek to explain both.
AB - Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face formidable structural obstacles to securing their rights as workers. Despite their apparent vulnerability, these informal workers have built perhaps the most powerful informal worker organizations in their countries. In this article, we explore and explain to the extent possible the sources, forms, and limits of this unexpected power. We explore organizational and strategic commonalities as well as differences and seek to explain both.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0147547915000368
DO - 10.1017/S0147547915000368
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84964825973
SN - 0147-5479
VL - 89
SP - 131
EP - 152
JO - International Labor and Working-Class History
JF - International Labor and Working-Class History
ER -