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Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa - Lived Realities and Associational Experiences from Tanzania and Kenya (Hardcover)
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Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa - Lived Realities and Associational Experiences from Tanzania and Kenya (Hardcover)
Series: The Dynamics of Economic Space
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The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in
a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and
where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited
access to official social protection. The dominant social
protection agenda and the associated literature come with an almost
exclusive focus on donor and state programmes even if their
coverage is limited to small parts of the populations - and in no
way stands measure to the needs. In these circumstances, people
depend on other means of protection and cushioning against risks
and vulnerabilities including different forms of collective
self-organizing providing alternative forms of social protection.
These informal, bottom-up forms of social protection are at a
nascent stage of social protection discussions and little is known
about the extent or models of these informal mechanisms. This book
seeks to fill this gap by focusing on three important sectors of
informal work, namely: transport, construction, and micro-trade in
Kenya and Tanzania. It explores how the global social protection
agenda interacts with informal contexts and how it fits with the
actual realities of the informal workers. Consequently, the authors
examine and compare the social protection models conceptualized and
implemented 'from above' by the public authorities in Tanzania and
Kenya with social protection mechanisms 'from below' by the
informal workers own collective associations. The book will be of
interest to academics in International Development Studies,
Political Economy, and African Studies, as well as development
practitioners and policy communities.
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