Street life as labour
The work, labour and economic life of Accra's street children

By (author) Phil Mizen,Yaw Ofosu-Kusi

ISBN13: 9781529205305

Imprint: Bristol University Press

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 01/12/2025

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Description
Introduction; Street Life as Labour: Dispossession, Exclusion and Vulnerability; Informal Urban Childhoods: Street Children and the Informal Economy; Researching Children Living and Working on the Streets of Accra; No Longer Able to be Dependent: Children Head for Work on Accra’s Streets; Finding A Way Through a Horizontal World: Street Children Seek Paid Work in the Informal Economy; Beck and Call Workers: Working as a Street Child at the Bottom of the Informal Economy; Street Labour as Life: Surviving on Virtually Nothing; Sources of Support and Solidarity: How Street Children Help Themselves and One Another; Conclusion.
  • Sociology: family & relationships
  • Sociology: work & labour
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
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