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Africa's Informal Workers : Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa.

Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindell, Ilda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Zed Books Ltd., 2010.
Colección:Africa Now.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 8 |a 4 -- Alliances across the formalinformal divide: South African debates and Nigerian experiences5 -- Self-organized informal workers and trade union initiatives in Malawi: organizing the informal economy; 6 -- Moments of resistance: the struggle against informalization in Cape Town; 7 -- The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana; PART THREE -- International dimensions of organizi. 
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