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"Half a loaf is better than nothing": The risks and resilience of day labourers in Cape Town
(Social Work (South Africa), 2019)
According to Worthington and Scherer (2004), resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or other significant sources of stress. The concept of resilience draws upon previous ...
The opportunities and value-adding activities of buy-back centres in South Africa’s recycling industry: A value chain analysis
(SAGE, 2019)
This paper investigates the entrepreneurial opportunities and value-adding activities of buy-back
centres in the recycling industry. Using Porter’s firm-level value chain framework as theoretical
framework for this ...
“Half a loaf is better than nothing”: The risks and resilience of day labourers in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch University, 2019)
According to Worthington and Scherer (2004), resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of
adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or other significant sources of stress. The concept of resilience draws
upon ...
Enabling factors for the existence of waste pickers: A systematic review
(2016)
The paper reports on a systematic review research process to determine the enabling factors for waste pickers to operate in the
informal economy in South Africa. Twenty-eight South African journal articles, theses and ...
Day labor, informality and vulnerability in South Africa and the United States
(Emerald, 2014)
The purpose of this paper is to compare conditions in informal day-labor markets in
South Africa and the USA to better understand the nature of worker vulnerabilities in this
market, as well as the economic conditions ...