Street Life as Labour

The Work, Labour and Economic Life of Accra's Street Children
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0530-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Drawing from the stories of survival within the cities of the Global South like Accra, Ghana, this book sheds light on the extraordinary resolve of street and working children and redefines the street as a resource on which they build their lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mizen, Phil

Ofosu-Kusi, Yaw

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction;

Street Life as Labour: Dispossession, Exclusion and Vulnerability;

Informal Urban Childhoods: Street Children and the Informal Economy;

Researching Children Living and Working on the Streets of Accra;

No Longer Able to be Dependent: Children Head for Work on Accra’s Streets;

Finding A Way Through a Horizontal World: Street Children Seek Paid Work in the Informal Economy;

Beck and Call Workers: Working as a Street Child at the Bottom of the Informal Economy;

Street Labour as Life: Surviving on Virtually Nothing;

Sources of Support and Solidarity: How Street Children Help Themselves and One Another;

Conclusion.