Professor Mike Rogan, member of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) at Rhodes University, explores how the fallout of the pandemic including lockdowns affected informal workers’ income, working hours, and access to healthcare -- as well as their coping strategies, demands and the government responses. Also presenting is Dr Ana Carolina, a Research Associate at Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising (WIEGO). The podcast is available here
The podcast draws on work done for the second round of a global, longitudinal survey by WIEGO. It includes clips from workers' testimonies taken from two webinars of the global survey project, and is part of a WIEGO series. NALSU members are involved in WIEGO, a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. For more about WIEGO, click here .