South Africa

Technology & Urban Informal Workers

Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

OpEd: South Africa’s Informal Sector Creates Jobs

WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Caroline Skinner wrote an OpEd in The Conversation shedding light on the realities of South Africa’s...

Interview: How South Africa Could Become a Model for Formalizing the Informal Economy

WIEGO’s Organization & Representation Programme Director, Jane Barrett, talks about the ILO’s Recommendation 204 on formalizing the...

Reclaiming Livelihoods: The Role of Reclaimers in Municipal Waste Management Systems

The Exclusion of Street Traders from the Benefits of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa

Falling through the Regulatory Cracks: Street Selling of Pesticides and Poisoning among Urban Youth in South AfricaInternational Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Second Best? Trends and Linkages in the Informal Economy in South Africa

Estimating the Causal Effect of Enforcement on Minimum Wage Compliance: The Case of South AfricaReview of Development Economics

This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. 

Nothing about us without us: A case study of the dynamics of the informal workplace in Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre

This research paper is part of the Development and Labour Monograph Series.