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Mamuna Mohammed, a head load porter (kayayei), carries bananas through Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana

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  • Street vendors in Accra. (Photo: J. Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage Law & Informality Insights

    Turning the Law into a Shield for Street Vendors in African Countries

    This Legal Brief compares the Civil Law and Common Law systems to explore the recourses and remedies street vendors may have to to defend...

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  • Research Reports

    Organising Workers in the Informal Economy: The Experience of the Self Employed Women’s Union, 1994-2004

    Abstract:

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  • Research Reports

    Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases

    Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009

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  • Journal Articles

    Trade Union Renewal and Labor Transnationalism in South Africa: The Case of SATAWU

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  • Research Reports

    The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors

    These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

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  • Research Reports

    “I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

    Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

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  • Journal Articles

    Understanding South African social security through recent household surveys: New opportunities and continuing gapsDevelopment Southern Africa

    The aim of this article is to identify some of the difficult areas in researching the South African social security system, and to offer...

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  • Journal Articles

    Promoting Workplace Health and Safety in Urban Public Space: Reflections from Durban, South Africa

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

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  • Research Reports

    A Review of Street Trade in Africa

    University of Nairobi, Institute for Development Studies. A review commissioned by Women in Informal Employment Globalising and Organising...

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