Unorganised Sector and The World

This book focuses International legal framework of street vending as well as the position of street vendors amongst various countries across the globe. Internationally no labour standards exist dealing directly with the issue of street vending. The ways in which street vending is approached at the country level varies dramatically from one country to another. Many countries specifically regulate this activity by providing a clear legal framework while others have overlapping jurisdictional mandates which create confusion and conflict and in others cases still street vending is simply considered illegal. Internationally street vendors began to organize in the 1990s as globalization and urbanization exacerbated city-level conflicts between vendors and local authorities. In November 1995 representatives of street vendors from 11 cities across five continents held the inaugural meeting of the International Alliance of Street Vendors in Bellagio Italy and called on governments to establish national street vending policies. This was a landmark development in the vendors’ movement at the global level.