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Trade Union Support and Organising Strategies

Power-resource mapping, union capacity building, and organising precarious and informal workers.

This theme covers power-resource mapping and union capacity development, organising precarious and informal workers, gender equality in collective bargaining, and worker education and rights awareness. It underpins tools such as ZILARD's shop-steward organising manual.

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Research activities under this theme

2025

Development of the Shop Steward Organizing Tool

Developed a shop-steward organising manual to strengthen worker representation and workplace organising -- equipping shop stewards with practical guidance, strategies, and resources to mobilise workers, address …

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2024

Organizing Workers in the Rural Economy and Plantations in Zambia: A Focus on Sugar Plantations

Aimed to improve labour conditions and organisation among workers in Zambia's rural sugar plantations, contributing to efforts to enhance living standards in rural areas.

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