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People want to work, yet most have to labour: Towards decent work in South African supply chainsLaw, Democracy and DevelopmentThe rights of labour have been described as “claims of reciprocity for the reality of being labour”. For over 12 million unemployed South... Read More
“We Are Good at Surviving”: Street Hustling in Addis Ababa’s Inner CityUrban ForumAbstract: Recent studies of the informal economy have tried to understand how the politics of informal actors and their attempts at organizing... Read More
Globalization, The Financial Crisis and Petty Production in India’s Socially Regulated Informal EconomyAbstract: This essay explores theoretical and practical problems arising from the impact of liberalization/globalization and its latest crisis... Read More
Does Informal Employment Exist in the United States and Other Developed Countries? New SolutionsAbstract: This editorial argues that informal employment does exist in developed countries and needs to be studied as such to complement... Read More
Informal Urbanism in the USA: New Challenges for Theory and PracticePlanning Theory and PracticeDevlin describes the case of immigrant food vendors in an area of Brooklyn and how as they became more popular with better off New Yorkers... Read More
Requiem for Stability: Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the World’s Working PoorInternational Planning StudiesThe global financial crisis of summer 2008 rocked markets throughout the world. Evidence of its impact on the urban working poor is only... Read More
Slim pickin’s: Supporting waste pickers in the ecological modernization of urban waste management systemsAbstract: Informal sector scavengers or waste pickers have been unrecognized stakeholders on the fringes of the urban waste landscape since... Read More
Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and PolicyThe crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers... Read More
From protection to repression: the politics of street vendingAbstract: The political evolution of Kampala under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has profoundly affected the fortunes of the city’s... Read More
