Street Vendors & Market Traders

Stockbrokers turned sandwich vendors: the economic crisis and small-scale food retailing in Southeast Asia

This paper examines narratives of the transformations in the small-scale food-retailing sector in urban Southeast Asia. The recent Asian...

Urban Paradigms and Legal Frameworks: A Global View

This note considers the question of urban paradigms and street vending from a global point of view. While this research has identified multiple...

Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, and Politics in Local and Global Perspective

Comercio ambulante en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México

Negotiating Formality: Informal Sector, Market, and State in Peru

Street Traders: A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa

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

Abstract:This study compares self-organising by informal workers with trade union initiatives of organising in the informal economy in Malawi....

Street Trade in Africa: A Review

Despite the advances in modern retailing, millions of people throughout the world still make their living partly or wholly through selling...

Chapter 3 – Different Sectors, Different Challenges

No Cushion to Fall Back On The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

The research shows that informal enterprises and informal wage workers are affected in many of the same ways as formal firms and formal wage...