How Recyclers and Vendors in New York City are Challenging Big Money to Build a Better City for Working People Read More
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Journal ArticlesAccumulation by dispossession and the informal economy – Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dumpEnvironment and Planning D: Society and SpaceMelanie Samson, former coordinator of WIEGO’s work with waste pickers in Africa, recently published an article entitled “Accumulation... Read More Journal ArticlesMultiple Shocks and Slum Household Economies in South IndiaEconomy and SocietyThis research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the... Read More Journal ArticlesEking out a living: the livelihood implications of urban space regulation on street hawking in Accra, GhanaAbstract: Street hawking as a source of livelihood across the developing world has often raised a lot of concerns regarding hygiene, slum,... Read More Journal ArticlesPromoting Workplace Health and Safety in Urban Public Space: Reflections from Durban, South AfricaThis special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Read More Journal ArticlesA ‘Wild West’ of trade? African women and men and the gendering of globalisation from below in GuangzhouIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and PowerBased on fieldwork in Guangzhou, this paper documents the activities of a group of African women traders, highlighting their role in constituting... Read More Journal ArticlesInformal recycling and occupational health in Santo André, BrazilAbstract: The collection of recyclables is a widespread activity among urban poor, particularly in countries with large socio-economic disparities.... Read More Journal ArticlesWho Cares? article in Feministische StudienWho cares? Drei politische Tagungen im März 2014 in Berlin This article (in German) was written by Karin Pape, the Deputy Director of WIEGO’s... Read More Journal ArticlesValue of Formalization for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Contexts: A Review and Research AgendaInternational Journal of Management ReviewsAbstract: Formalization is constantly being proposed as being of great benefit to business expansion and success. This claim, however, has... Read More Journal ArticlesWorking Women and Security: Self Employed Women’s Association’s Response to CrisisAbstract: Read More Journal ArticlesInformal Cities and the Contestation of Public Space: The Case of Bogotá’s Street Vendors Read More First Prev ... 11 ... 20 21 22 ... 31 ... Next Last
Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy – Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dumpEnvironment and Planning D: Society and SpaceMelanie Samson, former coordinator of WIEGO’s work with waste pickers in Africa, recently published an article entitled “Accumulation... Read More
Multiple Shocks and Slum Household Economies in South IndiaEconomy and SocietyThis research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the... Read More
Eking out a living: the livelihood implications of urban space regulation on street hawking in Accra, GhanaAbstract: Street hawking as a source of livelihood across the developing world has often raised a lot of concerns regarding hygiene, slum,... Read More
Promoting Workplace Health and Safety in Urban Public Space: Reflections from Durban, South AfricaThis special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Read More
A ‘Wild West’ of trade? African women and men and the gendering of globalisation from below in GuangzhouIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and PowerBased on fieldwork in Guangzhou, this paper documents the activities of a group of African women traders, highlighting their role in constituting... Read More
Informal recycling and occupational health in Santo André, BrazilAbstract: The collection of recyclables is a widespread activity among urban poor, particularly in countries with large socio-economic disparities.... Read More
Who Cares? article in Feministische StudienWho cares? Drei politische Tagungen im März 2014 in Berlin This article (in German) was written by Karin Pape, the Deputy Director of WIEGO’s... Read More
Value of Formalization for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Contexts: A Review and Research AgendaInternational Journal of Management ReviewsAbstract: Formalization is constantly being proposed as being of great benefit to business expansion and success. This claim, however, has... Read More
Working Women and Security: Self Employed Women’s Association’s Response to CrisisAbstract: Read More
