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Globalization and the informalization of labour: the case of South Africa

Devan Pillay

Abstract: This book chapter provides an introduction on the challenges that globalization and informalization are posing on organized labour in South Africa. It is argued that the unions have been unable to organize atypical vulnerable workers, especially women. The article then briefly introduces...

Extending health and safety protection to informal workers: an analysis of small scale mining in KwaZulu-Natal

Anna Marriott

School of Development Studies Research Report 76

Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

Francie Lund

Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa's policymaking, Changing Social Policy in South Africa charts the generation of the Report of the Lund Committee, which ultimately resulted in the establishment of the Child Support Grant (CSG) in...

When men do women's work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, GhanaThe Journal of Modern African Studies

Ragnhild Overå

Abstract: Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural–urban migrants and school-leavers of both genders seek employment in the...

Understanding self-employment at the margins of the South African economy: Findings from a pilot study on qualitative approaches to self-employment

Andries du Toit, David Neves

Report for the National Income Dynamics Study Steering Committee, Draft

Contaminated Identities: Mercury and marginalisation in Ghana's artisanal mining sectorGeoforum

Petra Tschakerta, Kamini Singhab

Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa

Li-Wei Chao, Mark Pauly, Helena Szrek, Nuno Sousa Pereira, Frances Bundred, Catherine Cross, Jeff Gow

Abstract: Small businesses contribute almost 50 percent of total employment and 30 percent of gross domestic product in South Africa, but the impact of poor health and AIDS on these businesses is poorly documented. Using three waves of longitudinal data from predominantly African neighborhoods in...

Promoting Women Workers’ Rights in African Horticulture: Overview of research into conditions on horticulture farms in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda

R. English

Introduction from the research paper: This document gives a brief summary of the research conducted into the situation of women workers in the African horticultural sector between 2005 and 2007. The research was conducted by local organisations in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda and has been...

Promoting the Informal Sector as a Source of Gainful Employment in Developing Countries: Insights from GhanaThe International Journal of Human Resource Management

Yaw A. Debrah

StreetNet Report on Collective Bargaining in the Informal Economy, laws and litigation strategies in the Street Vending Sector, 2007.

This document is a report on the StreetNet International meeting on collective bargaining, laws and litigation strategies held in Senegal in 2007.