Street Vendors & Market Traders

Why Evictions Do Not Deter Street Traders: Case Study in Accra, GhanaGhana Social Science Journal

Abstract: Like many major cities in developing countries, Accra faces increasing congestion of vehicles, pedestrians and traders around its...

Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This paper investigates ways in which linkages between the informal and formal segments of an economy yield benefits to, or impose costs...

The Right to Work on the Street: Public Space and Constitutional Rights.Planning Theory

Do people have a right to work on the street? If so, what are the constraints and conditions attached to this right? Historically, municipal...

Better OHS for Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This is a summary of a case study by Tony Dzidzinyo Dogbe and Suki Annan.

Contested Space: Street Trading, Public Space, and Livelihoods in Developing Cities

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Crítica ao Maneo Humano em Belo Horizonte

Promoting the Interests of Women in the Informal Economy: An Analysis of Street Trader Organizations in South Africa

Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 19

Fighting Poverty from the Street:A Survey of Street Food Vendors in Bangkok

Informal Economy, Poverty and Employment.Thailand Series, No. 1

Trade unions and the challenge of the informalisation of work

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‘World Class Cities for All’: Street traders as agents of union revitalization in contemporary South AfricaLabour, Capital and Society

AbstractEngaging with recent scholarly debates on the challenges of labour movement revitalization in both the global North and South, this...