At Christmas and on rainy days : transport, travel and the female traders of Accra
- Title
- At Christmas and on rainy days : transport, travel and the female traders of Accra / edited by Margaret Grieco, Nana Apt and Jeff Turner.
- Published by
- Aldershot : Avebury, 1996.
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Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 282 p.; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- Expected to earn, constrained in trade : trading a customary role for Ghanaian women / Memunatu Attah, Nana Apt and Margaret Grieco -- Trading and the tro-tro : a description of the informal public transport sector of Accra / Jeff Turner -- Petty trading in a reviving economy : the implications for motorised transport organisation / Nana Apt, Margaret Grieco and Yaw Dankwa -- Bearing the weight : the centrality of head loading in a petty trading structure / Vida Asomaning ... [et al.] -- Putting the cart before the car : traders' use of wheeled non-motorised transport options / Fred Amponsah ... [et al.] -- Female domestic financial responsibilities and household survival : travel strategies in a developing economy / Jeff Turner -- Stepping in and losing out : bread winning and educational loss amongst Ghana's school age girls / Vida Asomaning ... [et al.] -- Protected by their past, working for their future : doorstep trading and elderly women / Joanne Koomson ... [et al.] -- The traders' tales : biographies of Ghanaian female traders -- Gender and transport organisation : the case for a more sensitive policy approach / Jeff Turner, Margaret Grieco and Nana Apt.
- Call number
- Sc D 96-696
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Title
- At Christmas and on rainy days : transport, travel and the female traders of Accra / edited by Margaret Grieco, Nana Apt and Jeff Turner.
- Imprint
- Aldershot : Avebury, 1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added author
- Grieco, Margaret, 1950-
- Apt, Nana A.
- Turner, Jeff.
- LCCN
- gb 96046754
- ISBN
- 1859721729 : £39.95 (Jun.)
- Research call number
- Sc D 96-696
- JBD 96-1923