Wage Labor and Social Inequality in Kinshasa’s Informal Economy: A Class Analysis (notice n° 108866)
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| Personal name | Mesa, Héritier |
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| Title | Wage Labor and Social Inequality in Kinshasa’s Informal Economy: A Class Analysis |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2022.<br/> |
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| General note | 79 |
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| Summary, etc. | Cet article explore les trajectoires sociales de certains « travailleurs informels » et les dynamiques d’inégalité qu’elles mettent en évidence. L’étude examine comment la structure des relations de travail révèle les relations de classe et, plus largement, les positions sociales inégales au sein de l’économie informelle. La recherche s’appuie sur des données ethnographiques recueillies sur trois formes d’activités génératrices de revenus à Kinshasa : le commerce ambulant de pain, la friperie et l’agriculture urbaine. Si l’accès au capital offre à certains la possibilité de développer avec succès une activité génératrice de revenus rentable, c’est l’accès limité à diverses formes de capital qui contraint beaucoup d’entre eux à vendre leur force de travail — souvent avec un pouvoir de négociation affaibli — à ceux qui possèdent le capital. À l’inverse, certains acteurs ont réussi à surmonter la contrainte des formes de relations de travail asymétriques au sein de l’économie informelle et à s’assurer une vie relativement décente malgré leur position précaire. |
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| Summary, etc. | This article explores the social trajectories of some “informal workers” and the dynamics of inequality they highlight. The study investigates how the structure of labor relations reveal class relations and unequal social positionalities more broadly within the informal economy. The research draws from ethnographic data collected about three forms of income-generating activities in Kinshasa: street bread, second-hand clothing, and urban agriculture. While access to capital offers some the opportunity to successfully develop a profitable income-generating activity, the limited access to various forms of capital constrains many to sell their labor power—often with weakened bargaining power—to those in possession of capital. Conversely, some actors have successfully overcome the constraint of the forms of asymmetric labor relations within the informal economy and secured a relatively decent living despite their precarious position. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | République démocratique du Congo |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | inégalité sociale |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | travail |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | économie informelle |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Kinshasa |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | classe sociale |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | informal economy |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Democratic Republic of Congo |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | labor |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | social class |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | social inequality |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Kinshasa |
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| Note | Cahiers d'études africaines | 245-246 | 1 | 2022-06-10 | p. 319-340 | 0008-0055 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://shs.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-etudes-africaines-2022-1-page-319?lang=en">https://shs.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-etudes-africaines-2022-1-page-319?lang=en</a> |
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