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Organizing Briefs
Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies
This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...
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Research Reports
The Informal Sector in Ghana
From the paper: 80 percent of the Ghanaian workforce is employed in the informal sector. The sector is characterized by underemployment,...
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Journal Articles
When men do women’s work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, GhanaThe Journal of Modern African Studies
Abstract: Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of...
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Journal Articles
In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in NigeriaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs
The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. ...
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Journal Articles
From protection to repression: the politics of street vending
Abstract: The political evolution of Kampala under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has profoundly affected the fortunes of the city’s...
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Books & Book Chapters
Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development
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Research Reports
Women Street Traders in Urban South Africa: A Synthesis of Selected Research Findings
Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 15
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Research Reports
Trading on a grant: Integrating formal and informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks
Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 75
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Organizing Briefs
Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town
This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.
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Research Reports
Understanding Formal and Informal Economy Labour Market Dynamics: A Conceptual and Statistical Review with Reference to South Africa
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