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Bernards, Nick (2017) The global governance of informal economies : the International Labour Organisation in East Africa. Third World Quarterly, 38 (8). pp. 1831-1846. doi:10.1080/01436597.2016.1260448 ISSN 0143-6597.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2016.1260448
Abstract
This article develops a Gramscian approach to the governance of ‘informal’ economies through a historical study of International Labour Organization (ILO) programmes in East Africa. Drawing on Gramsci’s conception of the ‘subaltern’, the article highlights the ways in which the articulation of ‘informality’ in policy documents is coloured by broader struggles over the political organisation of labour. The article develops this argument through two case studies. The first examines the World Employment Programme mission to Kenya in the 1970s that popularised the concept of ‘informal’ labour. The second is a contemporary programme on apprenticeships in the informal economy that originated in Tanzania.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Global Sustainable Development | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International Labour Organisation -- Influence, Labor -- Kenya, Apprenticeship programs -- Tanzânia, Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937 | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Third World Quarterly | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 0143-6597 | ||||||
Official Date: | 20 January 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 38 | ||||||
Number: | 8 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1831-1846 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01436597.2016.1260448 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 May 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 January 2019 | ||||||
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