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Street Vendors & Market Traders

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  • Journal Articles

    ‘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...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

    This Briefing Note describes the background, objectives, activities and achievements of the Women’s Network as an example of better practice...

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    A Experiência de Advocacy no caso dos Trabalhadores Ambulantes em São Paulo

    Este sumário, disponível em português, faz uma reflexão sobre o processo jurídico que contestou e acabou por derrubar uma proibição da Câmara...

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  • Research Reports

    City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

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  • Research Reports

    Claiming Urban Space: Street Vending in Ahmedabad

    Working Paper 2: Law, Rights and Regulation in the Informal EconomyESRC-DFID Research Project

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Ambulantes e Direito à Cidade

    Street Vendors and the Right to the City is also available in English.

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

    ‘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...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    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...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Street Vendors in the Global Urban Economy

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