Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lived Realities and Associational Experiences...

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Lone Riisgaard Winnie V. Mitullah (University of Nairobi, Kenya)

Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lived Realities and Associational Experiences from Tanzania and Kenya

Lone Riisgaard, Winnie V. Mitullah (University of Nairobi, Kenya), Nina Torm

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English

Routledge
31 May 2023

Development studies; Social groups; Labour economics; Human geography; Regional geography

Series: The Dynamics of Economic Space

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.

Edited by: Lone Riisgaard, Winnie V. Mitullah (University of Nairobi, Kenya), Nina Torm
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781032003290
ISBN 10: 1032003294
Series: The Dynamics of Economic Space
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lone Riisgaard, PhD, is an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. Winnie Mitullah is a research professor at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi with a background in political science and public administration. Nina Torm, PhD, is postdoc at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark.