Table of contents
Competition in the informal sector of the economy: the case of market traders in Turkey
Recep VarcinLooks at some assumptions of street vending such as its individualistic nature, inefficiencies and irrationality. Uses research into the market traders in Ankara, Turkey. Shows…
Street trading from Apartheid to Post‐Apartheid: more birds in the cornfield?
Stein Inge NesvagPresents findings from a case study looking at African medicine vendors in Durban, South Africa. Compares the culturally repressive apartheid period with the post‐apartheid…
Tips of the trade: street vendors and the state in Barbados, West Indies
Loran E. CustingerPresents findings from a case study into official attempts to change street vending into an “appropriate” form for tourists in Barbados. Suggests this has had a negative effect…
Peddling policy: street vending in historical and contemporary contest
Alfonso MoralesFocuses on street vending in Chicago, in the USA, taking a historical perspective. Shows how it was used to alleviate unemployment in the volatile progressive era but then became…
www.openair.org: linking street vendors to the Internet
Steve Balkin, Alfonso MoralesPresents a discussion of an Internet Web site started in reaction to attacks on an historic street market in Chicago, USA. Takes an advocate’s perspective rather than an academic…
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- Prof Colin Williams