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Clandestine Geometries: Mapping Street Vending in Downtown São Paulo

Luciana Itikawa

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

Sally Roever

The empowerment trap: gender, poverty and the informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa

Kate Meagher

Street trading in Africa: Demographic trends, planning and trader organisation

Caroline Skinner

Informal Waste-Pickers in Latin America: Sustainable and Equitable Solutions in the Dumps

Candace Martinez

Alliances across the formal-informal divide: South African debates and Nigerian experiences

Gunilla Andrae, Björn Beckman

Abstract: This paper examines a potential merger between a trade union and an informal economy organisation in the Kaduna province in Nigeria. It takes the case of the Tailors‟ Union – an informal association that is not registered as a trade union – and the National Union of Textile Garments and...

The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana

Owusu Boampong

Abstract: This book chapter looks at collective organising of subcontracted informal port workers in Tema harbour, Ghana. The casual workers employed by the two largest labour subcontractors have formed their own local unions, which are affiliated to the Maritime and Dockers Union (MDU). The local...

Seen but not heard: Urban voice and citizenship for street traders

Alison Brown, Michal Lyons

Abstract: This book chapter compares traders associations in four cities - Dakar, Accra, Dar es Salaam and Kathmandu. Focus is on the value of individual and collective social capital gained from formally registered associations as well as from informal social networks. In Dakar, associations are to...

Self-organized informal workers and trade union initiatives in Malawi: Process, challenges and directions of organizing the informal economy

Ignasio Malizani Jimu

Abstract: This study compares self-organising by informal workers with trade union initiatives of organising in the informal economy in Malawi. Street vendors associations are used as examples of the prior, and Malawi Union for the Informal Sector (MUFIS) and the Construction, Industrial and Allied...

Moments of resistance: The struggle against informalization in the city of Cape Town

David Christoffer Jordhus-Lier

Abstract: This book chapter examines how trade unions have resisted neoliberal policies and the resulting informalization in Cape Town. One part of the union strategy adopted by the South African Municipal Workers‟ Union (SAMWU) has been to extend its membership to outsourced workers in informal...