Street Vendors & Market Traders

Informal workers in Kenya and transnational organizing: Networking and leveraging resources

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Chapter 1 – A Walk Through Warwick

African Women in Food Processing: A Major, But Still Underestimated Sector of Their Contribution to the National Economy

Paper prepared for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Formal Versus Informal Allocation of Land in a Commons: The Case of the Macarthur Park Sidewalk Vendors

Analyzing patterns of formal and informal property rights among sidewalk vendors in the United States.

Ahmedabad’s BRT System: A Sustainable Urban Transport Panacea?Economic and Political Weekly

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and the National Urban Transport Policy have given a boost to bus rapid transit systems...

Working Life of Street Vendors in MumbaiThe Indian Journal Of Labour Economics

Abstract: Street vendors in Mumbai are among the most deprived sections of the self-employed workers. This paper tries to portray the ‘working...

Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban GhanaAfrican Studies Review

Abstract: Contrary to expectations of modern democratic development, the establishment of liberal-democratic institutions in Ghana has not...

‘An area that governs itself ’: Informality, uncertainty and the management of street vending in New York CityPlanning Theory

Laws governing street vending in New York City are confusing, convoluted, at times contradictory and difficult to enforce with any sort of...

Using Administrative Law to Secure Informal Livelihoods: Lessons from South Africa

Although informal workers make up the broad base of the work force in many countries, legal frameworks often fail to protect and support...

Resisting the Entrepreneurial City: Street Vendors’ Struggle in Mexico City’s Historic Center

Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies,...