The legal empowerment agenda poverty, labour and the informal economy in Africa
Despite providing society with a set of crucial services, large groups of workers in the informal economy are subject to exclusion and discrimination, and their lives are characterised by various types of vulnerabilities and deprivations that result from the denial of social, economic, political and...
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Routledge
2016
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Towards an Effective Regulatory Framework for Labour Rights and Social Protection in Southern Africa
- 3. Poverty, Legal Empowerment and Informal Business in South Africa
- 4. Waste Management and the Workplace
- 5. Formalising Trading Spaces and Places: An Analysis of the Informal Sector in Lusaka, Zambia
- 6. The Complexities and Paradoxes of Governing the Informal Sector in Malawi
- 7. The Informal Health Industry in East Africa and Implementation of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor Agenda in Developing Countries
- 8. Human Rights of the Working Poor in Uganda's Informal Sector
- 9. Informal Labour and the Ethic of Care: Legal Protection of Care-givers in Malawi
- 10. The Right To Water: An Inquiry into Legal Empowerment and Property Rights Formation in Tanzania
- 11. Rights, Legal Empowerment and the Informal Economy in Africa: Concluding Remarks