All posts in South Africa
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Books & Book Chapters
Crossing the Divide: Precarious Work and the Future of Labour
this book shows how innovative organisational strategies are emerging in the Global South to bridge the widening divide between the formal...
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Books & Book Chapters
Street Trading
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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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Statistical Briefs
Statistics on Informal Employment in South Africa
This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in South Africa.
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Books & Book Chapters
Collective action in the informal economy : the case of the self-employed women’s union
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Books & Book Chapters
The Informal Economy
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Budget Briefs
Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa
In 2014, 18 per cent of people employed in KwaZulu-Natal worked in an informal enterprise. In 2014/15, eThekwini’s budget was R38.8 billion...
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WIEGO Publication Series
Informal Economy Budget Analysis: eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality
WIEGO’s Informal Economy Budget Analysis (IEBA) examines how government budgets address the needs and interests of different groups of informal...
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Research Reports
A summary of research findings on women informal workers and child care from six membership-based organizations
This publication is a summary of “Our children do not get the attention they deserve”: A synthesis of research finding on women informal...
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Research Reports
The nature of the South African informal sector as reflected in the quarterly labour-force survey, 2008-2014
Abstract of this REDI working paper: This paper presents an analysis of the nature of, and recent trends in, the South African informal sector...
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