Street Vendors & Market Traders

‘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...

Trabalho Informal e Direito à Cidade

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.

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Durban, South Africa

Peeling the Onion: Social Regulation of the Onion Market, Nangarhar, AfghanistanEconomic and Political Weekly

Afghanistan’s hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links...

The unexpected power of informal workers in the public square: A comparison of Mexican and U.S. organizing models

Abstract: Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face...

Politics of archiving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta.Dialectical Anthropology

In the last decade, several influential scholars have rigorously worked on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the poor in the cities...

Street Vending: Politics and Possibilities for Inclusion Street Vendors & Engagement with the State

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

Street Traders and the Emerging Spaces for Urban Voice and Citizenship in African Cities

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Street Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai