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List of contents
Foreword
1. Skills, the informal sector and global south youth: theory and methods to break the silence
PART 1. THEORISING: RETHINKING THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2. A relational capabilitarian approach for wellbeing livelihoods: Reframing and making alternative education, skills and work for young people
3. Subsumption, Alienation, and Questions of Meaning in Informal Sector Skills Training
4. Supporting youth livelihoods in an informal “sub-field” in the global south
PART 2. CONCEPTUALISING: CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING INFORMAL SECTOR SKILL ACQUISITION IN PRACTICE
5. Shifting informal geographies and the hustle for a better future
6. A typology of informal sector workers – heterogeneity and the complexity of skills development responses
7. The potential role of ICT in facilitating learning for livelihoods among informal apprentices in the automotive trade in Ghana
8. Highly educated migrants in platform-mediated food delivery work in the Netherlands: The absent presence of skills and its social effects
PART 3. CRITIQUING: UNDERSTANDING CONSTRAINTS AND WEAKNESSES IN DOMINANT APPROACHES
9. Exploring ‘valuable’ knowledge, skills and attitudes: Perceptions of young people in an informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg
10. Critiquing the concept of 'self-reliance' in informal sector training: A case study of Afghan refugee women in India
11. Gendering decent work: Rethinking the connections between informality, TVET and gender through the ‘Decent Work’ agenda in Sierra Leone and Cameroon
PART 4. ADVOCATING: TOWARDS REFORM OF POLICY AND PRACTICE
12. Financing Skills and Lifelong Learning in the Informal Sector
13. Exploring the intersectionality of green skills, innovation and livelihoods in the informal economy in Harare, Zimbabwe
14. Recognising Colombian waste pickers as public service providers and producers of knowledge
PART 5. CONCLUDING: MOVING FORWARD
15. Skill and livelihoods: some concluding ideas
About the author
Lesley Powell is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Adam Cooper is chief research specialist in the Equitable Education and Economies Research Division, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa.
Trent Brown is Associate Professor at Tokyo College at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Simon McGrath holds the established chair in Education at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Summary
This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the global south are pioneering learning and livelihoods that exist at the intersections of, and beyond, the boundaries of the state, market, and other formal institutions.
