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

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  • Book Review: “A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa” by Ercüment Celik

    The book review is on pages 9 – 10 of the newsletter.

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  • Research Reports

    Extending health and safety protection to informal workers: an analysis of small scale mining in KwaZulu-Natal

    School of Development Studies Research Report 76

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  • Journal Articles

    Methodological innovations in research on the dynamics of poverty: a longitudinal study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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  • Research Reports

    The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

    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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  • Journal Articles

    Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development

    Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...

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  • Journal Articles

    Pensions and development: Social security as complementary to programmes of reconstruction and development

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  • Research Reports

    Childcare Initiative Summary Report – Hindi

    कामकाजी गरीब से संबंधित छह सदस्य-आधारित संगठनों (MBOs) से असंगठित महिला श्रमिकों और बच्चों की देखभाल पर शोध निष्कर्षों का सारांश

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Economies and Urban Governance in Nigeria: Popular Empowerment or Political Exclusion?African Studies Review

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  • Journal Articles

    “Glocal” Movements: Place Struggles and Transnational Organizing by Informal Workers

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  • Journal Articles

    Assessment of the Health Impact of Occupational Risk in Africa: Current Situation and Methodological IssuesEpidemiology

    This paper presents information from the current monitoring systems in Africa, mainly Southern Africa, for occupationalillness and injury...

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