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

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  • Research Reports

    Promoting the Interests of Women in the Informal Economy: An Analysis of Street Trader Organizations in South Africa

    Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 19

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  • Journal Articles

    Addressing inequality and economic marginalisation

    Cape Town: Institute for African Alternatives

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  • Journal Articles

    ‘World Class Cities for All’: Street traders as agents of union revitalization in contemporary South AfricaLabour, Capital and Society

    AbstractEngaging with recent scholarly debates on the challenges of labour movement revitalization in both the global North and South, this...

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  • Research Reports

    Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Municipal Waste Management Industry in South Africa

    SEED Working Paper No. 66 Abstract: Examines features of the municipal waste management sector in South Africa, including the legal and policy...

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  • Research Reports

    Executive Summary-Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Durban, South Africa

    This report examines street vending in Durban, South Africa. The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) seeks to provide credible, grounded...

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  • Journal Articles

    People want to work, yet most have to labour: Towards decent work in South African supply chainsLaw, Democracy and Development

    The rights of labour have been described as “claims of reciprocity for the reality of being labour”. For over 12 million unemployed South...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Procurement Policy Subversion in Contracts Between South African Retailers and Suppliers

    Abstract: This chapter focuses on tensions and regulatory gaps impacting public procurement reform in the private sector (supply chain) doing...

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  • Journal Articles

    Actor networks and innovation activities among rural enterprises in a South African locality

    Abstract: Rural localities are often viewed as too remote, sparsely populated and poor in critical resources needed for them to be innovation...

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  • Research Reports

    Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya

    A report of an inter- agency team financed by the United Nations Development Programme and organised by the International Labour Office to...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana

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