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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Zed Books Ltd.,
2010.
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| Colección: | Africa Now.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Africa Now; About the editor; Acronyms; Introduction: the changing politics of informality collective organizing, alliances and scales of engagement; PART ONE
- The political dynamics of collective organizing; 1
- Seen but not heard: urban voice and citizenship for street traders; 2
- The politics of vulnerability: exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters; 3
- Women leaders and the sense of power: clientelism and citizenship at the Dantokpa market in Cotonou, Benin; PART TWO
- Constructing alliances: organizing across the formalinformal 'divide'
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- 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.