‘This job is not part of my dreams, what do I leave my children? Nothing’. Livelihoods of Durban car guards at ticketed pay to park sites
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car guards; informal sector; automation; formalisation; socioeconomics; livelihood; Durban; South Africa;All these keywords.
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