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Surviving on the street: the ambulatory street traders of santiago

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  • Contreras V.
  • Thomas J.

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Study reveals that the majority of ambulatory street vendors in Santiago are heads of household, i.e. the main wage-earners, and have been working as street vendors for a long time. A significant number of women enter this activity when their male partners lose their jobs in the formal sector. Others are forced into the labour market by the death or ill-health of a husband or being deserted by the former breadwinner.

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  • Contreras V. & Thomas J., 1993. "Surviving on the street: the ambulatory street traders of santiago," ILO Working Papers 992974863402676, International Labour Organization.
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