Description
| Product ID: | 9781786994516 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Urban Africa |
| Title: | Tanzania's Informal Economy |
| Subtitle: | The Micro-politics of Street Vending |
| Authors: | Author: Alexis Malefakis |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Development studies, Development studies, Urban communities, Sociology: work and labour, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / urban economics, Urban communities, Sociology: work & labour, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Urban economics, Tanzania |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An in-depth study of street trading in Dar es Salaam, revealing the hidden dimensions of the city’s thriving informal economy. The market places and street corners of Dar es Salaam are home to a thriving informal economy of street vendors selling secondhand clothing and other goods. These street vendors often live a precarious existence, under pressure from state authorities and international markets. In addition to these external pressures, the experiences of such vendors are also shaped by a complex interplay of internal tensions, rivalries and conflicting communal ties. Such internal dynamics are a common part of informal economies around the world, but have largely gone unrecognised and unexamined by academic scholarship.Based on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive interviews with vendors living and working in Dar es Salaam, Malefakis’s book offers a nuanced portrait of those trying to carve out a livelihood in a major African city, one in which ties of kinship and ethnicity are often viewed as a barrier, rather than an aid, to success. In the process, Malefakis provides an invaluable new perspective on the way in which co-operation, or lack thereof, functions in an informal economy, as well as insight into the lived experiences of those who depend on such economies. |
| Imprint Name: | Zed Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-17 |
