Browsing Research Articles (Anthropology and Archaeology) by Subject "Informal economy"

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“Informal” food traders and food security : experiences from the Covid-19 response in South Africa

Wegerif, M.C.A. (Marc) (Springer, 2021-08)

This opinion piece looks at the substantial role of informal traders in ensuring food security, and other economic and social goods in South Africa and how they have been impacted by Covid-19 and responses to it. The state ...
On law and legality in post-apartheid South Africa : insights from a migrant street trader

Schraten, Jürgen (Routledge, 2014-09)

This article focuses on the experience of law and legality by a migrant street trader in post-apartheid South Africa. The experiences of this stall vendor are analysed alongside theoretical notions of law and the legal ...
‘We are running for a living’ : work, leisure and speculative accumulation in an underground numbers lottery in Johannesburg

Krige, Detlev (Taylor & Francis, 2011)

In this paper the author presents a historically-informed ethnography of a Johannesburg underground lottery. The meaning of this lottery is tied up with the local-level sociological organisation of lottery banks and the ...

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