ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to contribute the legal and policy debate over strategies for improving informal workers labour conditions through collective action. It focuses on two case studies of the concerned actor's agency, organising mechanisms and partnership-building strategies in Kolkata, India and Crdoba, Argentina. The International Labour Organization (ILO) Report Statistical Update on Employment in the Informal Economy shows that in 2009, 49.7 per cent of Argentinas workers were engaged in informal employment and 32.1 per cent were employed in the informal sector. A comparative evaluation of the Indian and the Argentinian situations is particularly apt because of the similarities in the constitutional goal and extent of informality between the two countries in the Global South, irrespective of their geographical distance. The organising approach advocating the chapter proposes to make use of plural opportunities and building wider social networks in furtherance of an organisation-mediated improvement in informal workers lives.
