Gumbo, Perpetua
Women Informal Traders in Harare and the Struggle for Survival in an Environment of Economic Reforms
The evidence which was available from the interview points to a deepening social crisis in Zimbabwe as attested to by the increasing crisis of subsistence and livelihood among the overwhelming majorette of the informal sector workers.
Far from being the terrain where sections of the populace might be able to find economic liberation, the informal sector is, in fact characterised by serious internal differentiation, very low incomes, and an over-saturation that results in the inability of the women survey to do anything other than struggle at the margins for basic survival.
Keywords: Structural adjustment, Informal sector, Trade, Women, Household consumption, Survival strategies, Zimbabwe, Harare
- Author(s)
- Gumbo, Perpetua
- Mupedziswa, Rodreck
- Publisher
- The Nordic Africa Institute
- Publication year
- 2001
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 121 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 91-7106-469-9