At Christmas and on rainy days : transport, travel and the female traders of Accra

Title
  1. 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
  1. Aldershot : Avebury, 1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Grieco, Margaret, 1950-
  2. Apt, Nana A.
  3. Turner, Jeff.
Description
  1. 282 p.; 22 cm.
Subject
  1. Accra (Ghana) > Economic conditions
  2. Women > Ghana > Accra > Economic conditions
  3. Retail trade > Ghana > Accra
  4. Women merchants > Ghana > Accra
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Sc D 96-696
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Title
  1. At Christmas and on rainy days : transport, travel and the female traders of Accra / edited by Margaret Grieco, Nana Apt and Jeff Turner.
Imprint
  1. Aldershot : Avebury, 1996.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Added author
  1. Grieco, Margaret, 1950-
  2. Apt, Nana A.
  3. Turner, Jeff.
LCCN
  1. gb 96046754
ISBN
  1. 1859721729 : £39.95 (Jun.)
Research call number
  1. Sc D 96-696
  2. JBD 96-1923
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