Drawing from the stories of survival within the cities of the Global South like Accra, Ghana, this book sheds light on the extraordinary resolve of street and working children and redefines the street as a resource on which they build their lives.
Introduction;Street Life as Labour: Dispossession, Exclusion and Vulnerability;Informal Urban Childhoods: Street Children and the Informal Economy;Researching Children Living and Working on the Streets of Accra;No Longer Able to be Dependent: Children Head for Work on Accra’s Streets;Finding A Way Through a Horizontal World: Street Children Seek Paid Work in the Informal Economy;Beck and Call Workers: Working as a Street Child at the Bottom of the Informal Economy;Street Labour as Life: Surviving on Virtually Nothing;Sources of Support and Solidarity: How Street Children Help Themselves and One Another;Conclusion.
