Africa's informal workers :
Africa's informal workers : collective agency, alliances and transnational organizing in urban Africa /
edited by Ilda Lindell.
- London ; New York : [Uppsala, Sweden] : New York : Zed Books ; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- viii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.
- Africa now .
Introduction : the changing politics of informality : collective organizing, alliances and scales of engagement / Ilda Lindell -- Seen but not heard : urban voice and citizenship for street traders / Alison Brown and Michal Lyons -- The politics of vulnerability : exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters / Kate Meagher -- Women leaders and the sense of power : clientelism and citizenship at the Dantokpa market in Cotonou, Benin / Ebbe Prag -- Alliances across the formal-informal divide : South African debates and Nigerian experiences / Gunilla Andrae and Björn Beckman -- Self-organized informal workers and trade union initiatives in Malawi : organizing the informal economy / Ignasio Malizani Jimu -- Moments of resistance : the struggle against informalization in Cape Town / David Christoffer Jordhus-Lier -- The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana / Owusu Boampong -- The 'China challenge' : the global dimensions of activism and the informal economy in Dakar / Suzanne Scheld -- Passport, please : the Cross-Border Traders Association in Zambia / Wilma S. Nchito and Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Informal workers in Kenya and transnational organizing : networking and leveraging resources / Winnie V. Mitullah.
9781848134515 (hb) 1848134517 (hb) 9781848134522 (pb) 1848134525 (pb) 9781848134539 (eb) 1848134533 (eb)
Labor unions--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Labor--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Informal sector (Economics)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
331.4(6) / LIN P10A
Introduction : the changing politics of informality : collective organizing, alliances and scales of engagement / Ilda Lindell -- Seen but not heard : urban voice and citizenship for street traders / Alison Brown and Michal Lyons -- The politics of vulnerability : exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters / Kate Meagher -- Women leaders and the sense of power : clientelism and citizenship at the Dantokpa market in Cotonou, Benin / Ebbe Prag -- Alliances across the formal-informal divide : South African debates and Nigerian experiences / Gunilla Andrae and Björn Beckman -- Self-organized informal workers and trade union initiatives in Malawi : organizing the informal economy / Ignasio Malizani Jimu -- Moments of resistance : the struggle against informalization in Cape Town / David Christoffer Jordhus-Lier -- The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana / Owusu Boampong -- The 'China challenge' : the global dimensions of activism and the informal economy in Dakar / Suzanne Scheld -- Passport, please : the Cross-Border Traders Association in Zambia / Wilma S. Nchito and Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Informal workers in Kenya and transnational organizing : networking and leveraging resources / Winnie V. Mitullah.
9781848134515 (hb) 1848134517 (hb) 9781848134522 (pb) 1848134525 (pb) 9781848134539 (eb) 1848134533 (eb)
Labor unions--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Labor--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Informal sector (Economics)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
331.4(6) / LIN P10A