Street Vendors & Market Traders

We Need to Start Respecting Informal Workers

In the midst of rapid urbanization, the question of whether and how to formalize the informal economy is a growing concern.

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...

“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, ChinaGeoforum

Street vending faces uncertain state responses in contemporary Chinese cities, though it plays an important role in sustaining the livelihood...

Street vendors, and postmodernity: conflict and compromise in the global economyInternational Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Street vendors, and postmodernity: conflict and compromise in the global economy International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy In...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Greater Monrovia

Women Street Vendors: The Road to Recognition

SEEDS, No. 20

Informal Traders and Planners in the Regeneration of Historic City Centres: The Case of Quito, Ecuador

A major reason for the regeneration of historic city centres in developing countries is the possibility of benefiting from the growing mobility...

Women Street Traders in Urban South Africa: A Synthesis of Selected Research Findings

Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 15

Rethinking Street Traders as a Promising Agent of Re-Empowering Labour Movement in Contemporary South Africa

Conference paper highlighting the WCCA Campaign in South Africa. 7th Global Labour University Conference, ‘The Politics of Labour and Development’,28-30...