Publications
![Working Without Pay: Wage Theft in Zimbabwe](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Capture.full-cover.png)
Working Without Pay: Wage Theft in Zimbabwe
Wage theft is widespread throughout the the public- and private-sectors, with Zimbabweans working months without a paycheck. Based on surveys at 442 companies, the report documents the vast scope of wage theft; outlines the responsibilities of the state under international standards and national legislation; documents extravagant salaries and benefits to middle and top management even as workers go unpaid; and presents recommendations for action to address the problem.
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![Transforming Women’s Work: Policies for an Inclusive Economic Agenda](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Gender.Report.Transforming-Womens-Work.Policies-for-an-Inclusive-Economic-Agenda3.16.png)
Transforming Women’s Work: Policies for an Inclusive Economic Agenda
Convening experts from the AFL-CIO, the Rutgers University Center for Women’s Global Leadership and the Solidarity Center, this report examines how to shift governments’ policy priorities, create an enabling environment for social organizing and transform women’s interaction with labor markets within a rights-based model of development.
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![Putting Union Gender Equality Policy into Practice in South Africa](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Gender-report-cover.Putting-Union-Gender-Equality-Policy-into-Practice-in-South-Africa.10.2015.jpg)
Putting Union Gender Equality Policy into Practice in South Africa
Unions are key drivers advancing gender equality. Yet in many countries around the world, there is a disconnect between labor union policy and practice in transforming gender inequalities within trade unions. Through the lens of the South African union movement, this report explores the disconnect and examines new strategies for closing the gap between policy and practice.
![Annual Report 2014](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Annual-Report-cover.2014.jpg)
Annual Report 2014
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![Labor Migration and Inclusive Growth: Toward Creating Employment in Origin Communities (2015)](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Migration.Toward-Creating-Employment-in-Origin-Communities.5.15.jpg)
Labor Migration and Inclusive Growth: Toward Creating Employment in Origin Communities (2015)
This paper investigates the intersection of labor migration and the inclusive growth agenda, and seeks to recommend policies so governments of origin countries can, in part, expand labor migration’s positive impacts by making migrant workers agents in promoting and realizing an inclusive growth agenda in their origin communities.
![Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Labor Recruitment in Mexico (2015)](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Migration.Roles-for-Workers-and-Unions-in-Regulating-Labor-Recruitment-in-Mexico.jpg)
Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Labor Recruitment in Mexico (2015)
Fordham University law professor Jennifer Gordon examines the roles of guest workers as organizers, monitors and policy-setters in supply chain initiatives and other efforts to address labor recruitment violations.
![International Labor Migration: Re-regulating the Private Power of Labor Brokers (2015)](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Migration.Reregulating-the-Power-of-Labor-Brokers.jpg)
International Labor Migration: Re-regulating the Private Power of Labor Brokers (2015)
In this review of initiatives to regulate labor brokers, the authors find that state and civil society efforts to address migrant worker exploitation point to potential new policies, most effectively led by state-backed regulatory frameworks.
![Irreconciliable Differences? Pursuing the Capabilities Approach within the Global Governance of Migration (2014)](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Migration.Cababilities-Approach-in-Global-Governance-of-Migration.jpg)
Irreconciliable Differences? Pursuing the Capabilities Approach within the Global Governance of Migration (2014)
This report on global labor migration challenges the current “triple win” paradigm in global migration policy through a worker rights lens, and argues that when applying the now-accepted “capabilities” approach, the international development community must focus on the recognition and protection of the rights of migrant workers, their families and their communities.
![Solidarity Center 2013 Annual Report](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Annual-Report-2013-cover.jpg)
Solidarity Center 2013 Annual Report
![Africa Trade Unions and Africa’s Future: Strategic Choices in a Changing World (2014)](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Africa_Strategic-Choices-report.jpg)