This course offers a platform to analyse and discuss the political economy of informal employment and forces driving it. Our focus is on worker collective power and specifically on strategies for collective organising and bargaining in spaces where worker rights are commonly denied.
Across the four content chapters, we will get to learn more on themes such as: workers in informal employment organising and bargaining collectively to resist and overcome their exploitation; the power structures and forces that drive and sustain informalisation, and critical reflections on questions of worker collective power and action, including collective bargaining.
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Key concepts
Informal employment, informalisation of work, political economy of labour, key drivers of informality, precarity, collective representation, worker collective power, and collective organising and bargaining.
Course materials and workload
This course has 4 content chapters. A chapter contains a series of units; each unit is composed of one video lecture, two quiz questions, one exercise, one key reading (the link of which is provided right under the video) as well as additional readings (under the Additional Materials tab). All the course materials, including video scripts, can be downloaded and used offline. Zoom workshops with the course experts are recorded and added to the course content for those interested in going deeper into the issues discussed in each video lecture.
The estimated workload for each chapter is about 8 hours.
Course certificates
Certificate of Participation (CoP): can be obtained for free once you have completed 80% of the course.
Certificate of Accomplishment (CoA): can be issued only by the Global Labour University Online Academy. For details on the requirements, read carefully the information in Chapter 1, Unit 2.
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Deeply embedded in the business model of supply chains, different forms of structural discrimination – gender, race, ethnicity, age, migration status and others – intersect, pushing many women, people of colour and other disadvantaged groups to the bottom of the wage hierarchy and to more precarious jobs.
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ES- ¡Le damos la bienvenida a nuestro curso gratuito en línea en español y portugués!
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