Organising Everyday Resistance: An Ethnographic Study of Rickshaw Drivers in Bogotá.
Workers in the informal transport sector are often exposed to multiple forms of workplace violence, for instance by the police and their colleagues. Through a collection of rich ethnographic stories and using the concept of popular resistance, this article investigates how and under what conditions...
| Published in: | Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 369 - 385 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2021
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