Africa's informal workers : : collective agency, alliances and transnational organizing in urban Africa / / edited by Ilda Lindell.

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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Superior document:Africa now
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Place / Publishing House:London, England : : Zed Books,, ©2010.
[London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Africa now (Zed Books)
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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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.