Marlese von Broembsen

@marlesevb

Labour rights researcher | @uctlaw & Harvard Law school alumna | labour law and Informal employment; global value chains; urban spatial justice|tweets my own

Cape Town, South Africa wiego.org Joined March 2017

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Marlese von Broembsen @marlesevb Aug 15, 2023

Labour law only “sees” employees. It resists the idea that self-employed workers in the informal economy, such as street vendors and waste pickers, should also be the subjects of labour law wiego.org/blog/challengi… @PamhidzaiBamu @jeffreysvogt

Marlese von Broembsen @marlesevb Nov 7, 2024

If governments cannot create jobs, yet criminalize citizens who create their own jobs, they risk social instability. Yet governments routinely refuse to engage with inform wiego.org/blog/hungry-tr…

www.wiego.org ‘A Hungry Trader is an Angry Trader’: The Risks of Criminalizing Citizens Who Create Their Own Jobs If governments cannot create jobs, yet criminalize citizens who create their own jobs, they risk social instability. Yet governments routinely refuse to engage with informal vendors to discuss an...

Marlese von Broembsen @marlesevb Aug 2, 2024

A joy to moderate a panel discussion on Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers with the General Secretaries Nellie Kahua & Ruth Sakala of #domesticworker unions in Nambia and Zambia & @PamhidzaiBamu at the @AfricanLLS conference. @IDWFED @WIEGOGLOBAL @ILAW_Network

Marlese von Broembsen @marlesevb Jul 11, 2024

What a fantastic 4 days. I learnt new theoretical lenses but mostly loved the time with critical thinkers and passionate people: activist scholars and practitioners committed to the many workers excluded from labour law. Thanks @VPietrogiovanni @Clmumme @mdiasabey @FotisVergis

Moving Labour Collective @MoLabCollective Jul 9, 2024

Second day of the 2024 #WTFLabourLaw Camp:

Vibrant discussions on substance, critique, and tactics on Challenging the Binary Divide in the beautiful space that is the former Bari Tobacco Factory now housing @portafuturobari .

#LabourLaw #Disruption #MLC

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Marlese von Broembsen @marlesevb Jun 21, 2024

My blog discusses structural unemployment and the dream of #worldclass cities: urban renewal programmes that result in mass forced removals of #streetvendors from their workplaces and yet the right to work is enshrined in international law @CitiesAlliance

WIEGO @WIEGOGLOBAL Jun 19, 2024

Governments are trying to erase informal traders from public spaces.

@ilo developed a Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, also known as R204, that presents guidelines for changing this scenario.

👉 Learn more in our blog: bit.ly/3Khzkar

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