South Africa

The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa

Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa’s policymaking, Changing Social...

Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

Organizing in South Africa’s Informal Economy: An Overview of Four Sectoral Case Studies

In Focus Programme, Series on Representation and Organization Building. Working Paper, No. 60

Towards a Right to Work: The Rationale for an Employment Guarantee in South Africa

Paper presented at the PLAAS Studies in Poverty and Inequality and Isandla Institute Conference on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa,...

Major International Events and the Working Poor: Selected Lessons for Social Actors Stemming from the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa

This technical brief explores issues that arose before, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with the aim of informing...

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

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...