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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
  • 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
  • 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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