Street Vendors & Market Traders

Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly

This paper analyses the changing relations between organised women market traders and rulers in a West African context, from a distant past...

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

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,...

People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City

Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South...

Challenging city imaginaries: Street traders’ struggles in Warwick Junction

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Trade unions and the challenge of the informalisation of work

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Chapter 3 – Different Sectors, Different Challenges

A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official Statistics

This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers,...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Nakuru, Kenya

In Nakuru, WIEGO partnered with Kenya National Association of Street Vendors and Informal Traders (KENASVIT) to carry out this study.

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Lima, Peru