Essays about: "street vendor organization"
Found 2 essays containing the words street vendor organization.
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1. Political Organization in the Informal Economy: Organizing Street Vendors in Bogotá, Colombia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Half of the workers in the world do not have access to social and legal security. As workers of a growing informal economy, they lack the protection that formal workers usually have, such as pension and sick pay and their income is varying and insecure. In the past, it was workers organizing in labor unions who achieved improved working conditions. READ MORE
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2. The Right to the City from a Local to a Global Perspective : The Case of Street Vendor and Marketer Organizations in Urban Areas in the Copperbelt, Zambia
University essay from Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate the workings of multi-scalar networks that connect informal economy organizations that are active locally, nationally and internationally. The study adopts a „right to the city‟ framework wherein the relation between the local and the global is discussed. READ MORE