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245 0 0 _aAfrica's informal workers :
_bcollective agency, alliances and transnational organizing in urban Africa /
_cedited by Ilda Lindell.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bZed Books ;
_a[Uppsala, Sweden] :
_bNordiska Afrikainstitutet ;
_aNew York :
_bDistributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
_cc2010.
300 _aviii, 238 p. ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aAfrica now
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 _aLabor unions
_zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
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650 0 _aLabor
_zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
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650 0 _aInformal sector (Economics)
_zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
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651 0 _aAfrica, Sub-Saharan
_xEconomic conditions.
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651 0 _aAfrica, Sub-Saharan
_xSocial conditions.
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700 1 _aLourenço-Lindell, Ilda.
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830 0 _aAfrica now (Zed Books)
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