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Social networks in the entrepreneurial career: life-stories analysis of informal entrepreneurs in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina-Faso) (In French) [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes the evolution and transformation of social relations and networks of access to resources during the professional career of micro entrepreneurs in the informal African urban economy.
Jean-Philippe BERROU (GREThA UMR CNRS 5113)   +1 more
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Analyzing Informal Social Protection Across Borders: Synthesizing Social Network Analysis with Qualitative Interviews [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Bilecen B. Analyzing Informal Social Protection Across Borders: Synthesizing Social Network Analysis with Qualitative Interviews. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 19.
Bilecen, Basak
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Master Servant Relationships in the Eastern Cape: the 1820 Settlement

open access: yesAfrican Studies Quarterly, 2021
This article is about the rebellious behavior of the servant class and the consequent threat it posed to the established social order in the 1820 settlement.
Amina Marzouk Chouchene
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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affordances and constraints on informal learning in the workplace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The workplace is increasingly recognised as a legitimate environment for learning new skills and knowledge that enables workers to participate more effectively in ever-changing work environments. Within the workplace there is the potential for continuous
Volet, S., Le Clus, M.
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Development and disappointment : an ethnographic study of Kosovo informal settlement's water and sanitation system upgrade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-73).In the context of rapid urbanisation and growing numbers of informal settlements in peri-urban areas of Cape Town, South Africa, a development project was undertaken by the municipality, to provide Kosovo ...
Beauclair, Roxanne
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Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

SOCIAL CONTROL OF STATE AUTHORITY BODIES OVER WOMEN OF COMMERCIAL SEX IN MYKOLAYOVSHICHINA IN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

open access: yesПублічне управління та регіональний розвиток
The article analyses the effectiveness of the experience of organizing social control over women of commercial sex in Mykolaiv region in the 19th century.
Svitlana Surgova, Yelyzaveta Titova
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