'Glocal' movements: Place struggles and transnational organizing by informal workers

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-136

  Lindell, Ilda ^a  

^a NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Grassroots organizations; Informal sector; Politics of place; Scale; Spatialities of resistance; Transnational movements

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; INFORMAL SECTOR; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

AFRICA; MAPUTO [MOZAMBIQUE]; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 67549133301     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2009.00310.x     Document Type: Article

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