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Mental Health Risks Among Informal Waste Workers in Kathmandu Valley,Nepal

Alisha Karki, Jiban Karki, Saugat Joshi [...]

INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization,Provision,and Financing

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First published 2025-10

Classification struggles of informal workers: How waste pickers became proletarianized in Brazil and Indigenized in Colombia

Manuel Rosaldo

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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First published 2026

Vulnerability assessment of informal waste workers in India and its implications towards sustainable waste management policy

Jatin Kumar Drall, Mayengbam Ramesh Chandra, Vidisha Upadhyay [...]

Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy

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First published 2026-3

The embodied waste laborer: Waste,value and labor among Pakistani workers in Hong Kong’s informal street market

Terence Chun Tat Shum

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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First published 2020-10

Efficiency in waste collection markets: Changing relationships between firms,informal workers,and the state in urban India

Aman Luthra

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

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First published 2017-12

Informal processing of electronic waste at Agbogbloshie,Ghana: workers’ knowledge about associated health hazards and alternative livelihoods

Emily A. Yu, Matthew Akormedi, Emmanuel Asampong [...]

Global Health Promotion

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First published 2016-10

Waste pickers and cities

Sonia Maria Dias

Environment & Urbanization

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First published 2024-1

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Formalization: Waste Pickers’ Struggles for Labor Rights in São Paulo and Bogotá

Manuel Rosaldo

ILR Review

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First published 2014-9

Municipal solid waste recycling and the significance of informal sector in urban China

Roland Linzner, Stefan Salhofer

Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy

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First published 1999-10

Occupational health and safety amongst municipal solid waste workers in Florida

Huren An, James Englehardt, Lora Fleming [...]

Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy

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