Street vending in urban India

Bhowmik, Sharit K.

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“…Where the efforts of these categories of workers to organize have been successful, their demands have reflected the specific priorities of their members. For street traders, for instance, the priority has been to gain official recognition for their members’ need for space in urban areas to carry out their activities as well as to provide access to finance for their businesses (Bhowmik and Saha, ). Waste pickers' organizations have sought to circumvent the middlemen who siphon off the profits that could be made from waste materials (Medina, ).…”

Section: Women Workers and Domestic Markets: The Locally Driven Politmentioning

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Women Workers and the Politics of Claims Making: The Local and the Global

Kabeer¹

2018

Development and Change

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This article analyses the evolving politics of claims making in relation to women workers in the global South. It asks what claims are being made and by whom, who these claims are addressed to and what strategies are being employed to press these claims. It distinguishes between women working for global markets and those working for domestic markets in order to identify possible differences in constraints, priorities and opportunities underlying these strategies. It also distinguishes between the different kinds of organizations involved in making claims: organizations of women workers, organizations working with women workers and organizations working on behalf of women workers. The article is one of several papers forming a cluster on feminist mobilizations.

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Section: Women Workers and Domestic Markets: The Locally Driven Politmentioning

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Women Workers and the Politics of Claims Making: The Local and the Global

Kabeer¹

2018

Development and Change

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“…The combination of urbanisation, migration, fi nancial crisis, natural disasters, limited education and skills, search for economic opportunity and income, strategic nature of street vending, family infl uence in the form of support from a family member, entrepreneurship, lack of fi nance for larger business, evasion of taxes, orphanhood, widowhood, poverty and lack of opportunities in formal job and economic development trends have led to a rapid increase in the number of street traders operating on the streets of developing countries around the world (Skinner 1999;Donovan 2002;Mitullah 2004;Bhowmik 2005;Brown 2006;Kusakabe 2006;Roever 2006;Saha 2011a;Bhowmik & Saha 2012. There are a number of issues related to the activity that are highlighted in studies conducted in Latin America, Africa and Asia.…”

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Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics

Saha¹

2016

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Low industrial growth, the declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced the poor to take recourse to informal sources of livelihoods in the urban economy. Street vending is one such thriving source of self-employment across cities.This book delves into the sustenance and survival strategies of street vendors across seventeen cities in India and assesses the issues revolving around self-created markets, livelihood and politics that are contested in public space. It also presents a conceptual and theoretical understanding of different socio-economic and policy concerns pertaining to street vending in the country. The study shows how, despite the absence of legal frameworks and institutional support, these urban self-employed informal workers subsist by arranging ad hoc alternatives, creating informal institutions and negotiating with formal and informal actors in the market. It also discusses the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, and examines how inclusive the legal recognition is for these workers of informal economy.Drawing on exhaustive research and a wealth of primary data, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers in development studies, labour studies, economics and sociology, and those in public policy and urban planning.

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“…In addition, Bhowmik (2012) asserted that the globalization and economic liberalization have created employment opportunities on the one hand while it has also displaced workers in large enterprises who have turned to street vending as an alternative source of income.…”

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The Empowerment of Marginalized Community (Street Vendors) for Developing Creative Economy in Payakumbuh City West Sumatra

Syamsir

2016

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This study generally aimed to find a model for empowerment of the marginalized community of street vendors for developing creative economy in Payakumbuh City, West Sumatra. While specifically this study aimed to get an overview of: 1) the City Government's efforts in the empowerment of street vendors, and 2) the degree of success of the empowerment program of street vendors by the City Government. This study uses qualitative approach. Data collected through questionnaire, interview, observation, and documentation study in several government agencies and the street vendors in Payakumbuh, West Sumatra Province. Respondents in this study consisted of street vendors with business types of vegetables, fruits, accessories, foods, beverages, and other culinary merchants.Using frequency and percentage tests on responses by 445 respondents of street vendors and some informants in Payakumbuh city, West Sumatra, this study tested some aspects of marginalized community empowerment program Payakumbuh City. The findings of this study indicate that: 1) The empowerment of marginal urban communities (street vendors) by Payakumbuh Government has been running quite well; and 2) The level of success of the street vendors empowerment programs by the Payakumbuh Government during the time is still categorized as quite well, especially when it is measured based on capital movement of the street vendors.

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Street vending in urban India

Cited by 35 publications

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Women Workers and the Politics of Claims Making: The Local and the Global

Women Workers and the Politics of Claims Making: The Local and the Global

Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics

The Empowerment of Marginalized Community (Street Vendors) for Developing Creative Economy in Payakumbuh City West Sumatra

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