Workers in the informal economy

The seminar is organised by IRENE, the international network on labour and development, and the Evangelische Akademie Mülheim.
June 19 - 22, 2000; Evangelische Akademie, Mülheim (Ruhr), Germany.

Women working in the informal sector work and live in a huge invisible area, their work in the productive and reproductive sphere is largely unrecognised around the world. Economic, social, political and legal policy has been inefficient and exploitative for women working in the informal sector. These women are regarded as "free commodities". The women and men present at the seminar who work with informal sector workers find them to be courageous survivors and strategists in the face of the hardships and oppression in the informal sector.