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2018: Frederick Fourie - The South African Informal Sector: Creating Jobs, Reducing Poverty

SPEAKER AND TOPIC: Frederick Fourie, University of the Free State, "The South African Informal Sector: Creating Jobs, Reducing Poverty" The informal sector is South Africa's "forgotten" sector in many ways, yet it provides livelihoods, employment and income for about 2.5 million business owners and workers. One in every six South Africans who work, work in the informal sector. Almost half of these work in firms with waged employees, with around 850,000 paid jobs in the sector -- twice the employment in mining. The annual entry of new enterprises is high, as is the number of enterprises that grow their employment. There is no shortage of business initiative and desire to grow. This seminar draws on an important collection of research, edited by Professor Fourie, in order to shed light on the sector and consider the policy implications. "The South African Informal Sector: Creating Jobs, Reducing Poverty" is an open access book by the HSRC that provides unmatched evidence- and data-driven analyses, with substantial quantitative contributions combined with qualitative findings, and utilises several disciplinary perspectives. Professor Fourie argues that recognising the informal sector as an integral part of the economy is a crucial first step towards instituting a "smart policy" approach. It is essential to have well-designed measures that enable and support the sector, rather than suppress it, and that address the obstacles and constraints that foster hardship and failure. DETAILS: This is a recording of a live event in the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) Labour Studies Seminar Series, held on Wednesday, 5 September 2018, at Eden Grove, Seminar Room 2, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa. HOSTS: The series is run by the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) in partnership with the Departments of Sociology & Industrial Sociology, and Economics & Economic History, Rhodes University. ABOUT NALSU: NALSU is based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and is engaged in policy, research and workers' education. Built around a vibrant team from disciplines including Sociology and Economics & Economic History, it has active partnerships and relations with a range of advocacy, labour and research organisations. It draws strength from its location in a province where the legacy of apartheid and the cheap labour system, and the contradictions of the post-apartheid state, are keenly felt. We are named in honour of Dr Neil Hudson Aggett, a union organiser and medical doctor who died in 1982 in an apartheid jail after enduring brutality and torture. MORE: www.ru.ac.za/nalsu