Workers’ power is being recast as precarious workers in Africa experiment with new ways of organising in the digital age
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As much as 31% of grant beneficiaries engage in informal work to ‘grow’ their income.
Vendors are continuously exposed to outdoor air pollution from traffic or automotive emissions and cooking fuels such as gas and open fires.
Informal workers are victims of the smart city drive in Africa.
Lockdown and stay-at-home orders may not benefit societies dominated by informal economies.
Many formal sector jobs are increasingly precarious and poorly paid, meaning that formal work is not an avenue to greater social equality for many people.
Recent developments in the organisation of production have led to the decline of wage employment across much of the world.
The historically high level of informal work in Latin America will make its recovery much more difficult than elsewhere.
Cramped living conditions, a lack of social distancing and informal businesses staying open during lockdown may have come together to drive up the city’s infection rate.
The International Labour Organization was founded in 1919 at the Treaty of Versailles after the ravages of pandemic and world war. Its model offers a way forward for us now.
Maids were among Brazil’s earliest COVID-19 victims, infected by employers who had been to Italy. Now 39% of Brazilian ‘domésticas’ have been let go, most without severance or sick leave.
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Lecturer in Work, Employment, Organisation & Public Policy, University of Bristol
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Professor of Management, University of Bristol
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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