This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective...

Emancipatory action research into workers' struggles -- Defining globalization -- Four sources of the global crisis of 2008 -- Capital, the state, and trade union rights -- Employees' unions: an experiment in union democracy -- Informal labor: the struggle for legal recognition -- Working women...