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The growing precariousness of employment across theworld has radically altered the conditions upon which the representation ofworkers? interests has traditionally been built, as it has posed challenges forestablished trade unions: individualized employment and fragmented identitieshave displaced the centrality of the workplace and the employee-employerrelationship in framing collective issues of representation. In this article wecompare the processes of collective organisation of two groups of precariousworkers in the transport and delivery sector of Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam.Through this comparison we investigate how existing trade unions structures, industrialrelations frameworks, socio-political contexts and labour processes interactwith the processes of workers? organization that take place even in the harsherconditions of informal work, critically engaging with the argument that thegrowing precariousness of work represents the end of trade unionism as we knowit.