Africa's informal workers collective agency, alliances and transnational organizing in urban Africa
Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focu...
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Africa now (Zed Books)
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009703337306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the changing politics of informality : collective organizing, alliances and scales of engagement / Ilda Lindell
- Seen but not heard : urban voice and citizenship for street traders / Alison Brown and Michal Lyons
- The politics of vulnerability : exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters / Kate Meagher
- Women leaders and the sense of power : clientelism and citizenship at the Dantokpa market in Cotonou, Benin / Ebbe Prag
- Alliances across the formal-informal divide : South African debates and Nigerian experiences / Gunilla Andrae and Björn Beckman
- Self-organized informal workers and trade union initiatives in Malawi : organizing the informal economy / Ignasio Malizani Jimu
- Moments of resistance : the struggle against informalization in Cape Town / David Christoffer Jordhus-Lier
- The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana / Owusu Boampong
- The 'China challenge' : the global dimensions of activism and the informal economy in Dakar / Suzanne Scheld
- Passport, please : the Cross-Border Traders Association in Zambia / Wilma S. Nchito and Karen Tranberg Hansen
- Informal workers in Kenya and transnational organizing : networking and leveraging resources / Winnie V. Mitullah.
