May Day 2026: Worker Organizations Uphold Democracy Amidst Rising Conflict and Authoritarianism Read More
Planning as Practice? Governing Conjunctures and Informal Urbanisation in Solapur Town Solapur is a town in Maharashtra with a vibrant industrial legacy, yet fraught with spatial and socio-economic divisions in the contemporary... Read More
Growth, Structural Change and Wage Rates in Rural India Examining the structural transformation in India and its developed states to know whether they have passed the Lewis turning point, this... Read More
Raccoglitori di Residui; Una panoramica globale sul primo anello del circuito del riciclaggio (Waste pickers: a global view on the first step of the recycling chain)CWG-Reorient- Retos al Sur Read More
Informal economy, informal state: the case of UzbekistanInternational Journal of Sociology and Social Policy In the Soviet Union, the official command structure for economic production and distribution gave rise to, and depended upon, what has been... Read More
Growth in GVA of Indian ManufacturingEconomic and Political Weekly Two comments on “Growth in Gross Value Added of Indian Manufacturing: 2011-12 Series vs 2004-05 Series” (EPW, 23 May 2015) question... Read More
People want to work, yet most have to labour: Towards decent work in South African supply chainsLaw, Democracy and Development The rights of labour have been described as “claims of reciprocity for the reality of being labour”. For over 12 million unemployed South... Read More
“We Are Good at Surviving”: Street Hustling in Addis Ababa’s Inner CityUrban Forum Abstract: Recent studies of the informal economy have tried to understand how the politics of informal actors and their attempts at organizing... Read More
Globalization, The Financial Crisis and Petty Production in India’s Socially Regulated Informal Economy Abstract: This essay explores theoretical and practical problems arising from the impact of liberalization/globalization and its latest crisis... Read More
Eking out a living: the livelihood implications of urban space regulation on street hawking in Accra, Ghana Abstract: Street hawking as a source of livelihood across the developing world has often raised a lot of concerns regarding hygiene, slum,... Read More
Promoting Workplace Health and Safety in Urban Public Space: Reflections from Durban, South Africa This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Read More
