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Women and Globalisation: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Construction Workers in Contemporary India This article identifies the opportunities and constraints faced by female construction workers in urban India, citing empirical research... Read More
Waste management policy: implications for landfill waste salvagers in the Western CapeInternational Journal of Environment and Waste Management Abstract: The City of Cape Town Solid Waste Management Department’s (CCTSWMD) design of a more formal, integrated and sustainable waste... Read More
When men do women’s work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, GhanaThe Journal of Modern African Studies Abstract: Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of... Read More
The dilemma of managing the challenges of street vending in public spaces: The case of Enugu City, Nigeria Abstract: Urbanisation trend in sub-Saharan Africa in general and Nigeria in particular, is characterised by rapid urban population growth... Read More
Pesticide Vendors in the Informal Sector: Trading Health for Income Abstract: South African low-income communities face many challenges (e.g., insufficient housing, poor service delivery, and abject poverty);... Read More
A refugee in my own country: Evictions or property rights in the urban informal economy? Normative approaches to urban governance and planning and idealised visions of city space too often result in relocation or forced eviction... Read More
Dislocating modernity: Identity, space and representations of street trade in Durban, South Africa South Africa’s cities have experienced dramatic changes over the past decade. Cities are now home to a multiracial population, and have been... Read More
Countdown 2015: an assessment of basic provision to migrant families in the urban slums of Ludhiana, North India This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Read More
Mapping India’s World of Unorganized LabourSocialist Register Abstract: The massive unorganized sector, which contributes some 60% of GDP beyond the regulative and protective reach of the state, is one... Read More
The Work and Lives of Street Waste Pickers in Pretoria—A Case Study of Recycling in South Africa’s Urban Informal EconomyUrban Forum Abstract: High levels of unemployment are a permanent feature in the urban areas of many developing countries. South Africa is no exception... Read More
