Street Vendors & Market Traders

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...

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)

On the Borders of Legality: A Review of Studies on Street Vending in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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.

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...

Street Vendors and the Right to the City

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Transitioning into the Formal – Women Entrepreneurs in the Informal Economy of Nepal

Abstract: This qualitative study aims to understand how and why different groups of informal women entrepreneurs in Nepal engage with, or...

Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies

Street vending represents a vital and growing aspect of the urban informal economy that is often the subject of municipal regulatory efforts...

Case studies of collective bargaining and representative forums for street traders

Here StreetNet shares a variety of case studies from around the world about street traders and collective bargaining.