TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lindell,Ilda
TI  - Africa's informal workers: collective agency, alliances and transnational organizing in urban Africa
T2  - Africa now
SN  - 978-1-84813-451-5
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Informal sector (Economics)
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - Labor
KW  - KUL
KW  - #SBIB:39A4
KW  - Toegepaste antropologie
KW  - Applied Anthropology
KW  - #SBIB:39A73
KW  - Etnografie: Afrika
KW  - Ethnography: Africa
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 Bjorn 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
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