Africa's informal workers : collective agency, alliances and transnational organizing in urban Africa /: collective agency, alliances and transnational organizing in urban Africa. (©2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ilda Lindell.
• Other Names: Lourenço-Lindell, Ilda
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York [Uppsala, Sweden] : Zed Books Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2010
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages)
• Subjects: 330.9; Labor unions -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Labor -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Informal sector (Economics) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History; Economic history; Informal sector (Economics); Labor; Labor unions; Social conditions; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions; Sub-Saharan Africa; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848134539; 1848134533; 1848134517; 9781848134515; 1848134525; 9781848134522
• Related ISBNs: 9781848134515; 9781848134522
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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