Social protection and informal workers in Sub-Saharan Africa : lived realities and associational experiences from Kenya and Tanzania

Social protection and informal workers in Sub-Saharan Africa lived realities and associational experiences from Kenya and Tanzania

The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated literatu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Riisgaard, Lone (Editor), Riisgaard, Lone, editor (editor), Mitullah, Winnie, editor, Torm, Nina, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor & Francis 2022
[2022]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Dynamics of economic space.
Materias:
Precarious employment.
development policy
development studies
employment in the global south
global south development
global south economies
informal economy
informal income
informal work
informal workers
social protection policy
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / by Lone Riisgaard, Nina Torm, and Winnie Mitullah
  • Formal social protection and informal workers in Kenya and Tanzania: From residual towards universal models? / by Nina Torm, Godbertha Kinyondo, Winnie Mitullah, and Lone Riisgaard
  • The relationship between association membership and access to formal social protection: A crosssector analysis of informal workers in Kenya and Tanzania / by Nina Torm
  • Self-regulating informal transport workers and the quest for social protection in Tanzania / by Godbertha Kinyondo
  • Informal transport worker organizations and social protection provision in Kenya / by Anne W. Kamau
  • Informal trader associations in Tanzania - providing limited but much needed informal social protection / by Lone Riisgaard
  • Access to social protection: The role of micro-traders' associations / by Raphael Indimuli
  • Social protection and informal construction worker organizations in Tanzania: How informal worker organizations strive to provide social insurance to their members / by Aloyce Gervas
  • Construction workers in Kenya: Straddling with formal and informal social protection models / by Winnie Mitullah
  • Convergence and divergence of workers' environment, associations, and access to social protection: Sectoral and country comparisons / by Winnie Mitullah, Lone Riisgaard, Nina Torm, Aloyce Gervas, Raphael Indimuli, Anne W. Kamau, and Godbertha Kinyondo
  • Concluding reflections / by Lone Riisgaard, Winnie Mitullah, and Nina Torm.

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