03094nam 2200457Ka 450 991101131590332120240912105410.91-000-47869-6(CKB)4900000001074705(BIP)080480769(VLeBooks)9781000478693(ODN)ODN0006326741(EXLCZ)99490000000107470520220413d2021 uy 0engurcn|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSocial protection and informal workers in sub-saharan africa Lived realities and associational experiences from tanzania and kenya. /Lone Riisgaard1st20211 online resourceThe Dynamics of Economic SpaceThe 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.Casual laborInformal sector (Economics)Job securityCasual labor.Informal sector (Economics)Job security.331.25960967SCI030000SOC015000bisacshRiisgaard Lone1363189Riisgaard Lone1363189Mitullah Winnie V. (University of Nairobi, Kenya)1830705Torm Nina1830706BOOK9911011315903321Social protection and informal workers in sub-saharan africa4401206UNINA