The Americas

Sumário Executivo: Vendedoras e Vendedores de Rua da Região Metropolitana de Lima

Linking Trade and Labour Standards: A Promising Synergy or Double-edged Sword? Acta Juridica

Trade liberalisation is increasingly promoted and regulated through regional, bilateral or unilateral trade arrangements. In recent years...

Land, Life, and Security: An Interview with Edgardo Garcia, Secretary General of the Association of Farm Workers in Nicaragua

Abstract: This is an interview with Edgardo Garcia, Secretary General of the Association of Farm Workers in Nicaragua and Oscar Berríos from...

Statistics on Street Vendors and Market Traders in Metropolitan Lima and Urban Peru

Based on this survey, the brief reviews trends in street vending and market trade in Lima and in urban Peru between 2004 and 2015. It also...

Informal Sector and Social Policy: Compendium of Personal and Technical Reflections. Cornell-SEWA-WIEGO Exposure and Dialogue Program

Unregulated work in the global city: Employment and labor violations in New York City

Sociological Inquiry

Abstract: Most research on the informal economy concentrates on how the informal economy operates at the international and regional levels...

Informal Urbanism in the USA: New Challenges for Theory and PracticePlanning Theory and Practice

Devlin describes the case of immigrant food vendors in an area of Brooklyn and how as they became more popular with better off New Yorkers...

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

The Informal Economy in Greater Buenos Aires: A Statistical Profile

This paper interrogates the nature of the informal economy in Greater Buenos Aires. It takes advantage of the existence of a unique dataset,...