Contents:Introduction: the changing politics of informality - collective organizing, alliances and scales of engagement / Ilda Lindell -- PART ONE The political dynamics of collective organizing -- 1. Seen but not heard: urban voice and citizenship for street traders / Alison Brown and Michal Lyon -- 2. The politics of vulnerability: exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters / Kate Meagher -- 3. Women leaders and the sense of power: clientelism and citizenship at the Dantokpa market in Cotonou. Benin / Ebbe Prag -- PART TWO Constructing alliances: organizing across the formal-informal 'divide' -- 4. Alliances across the formal-informal divide: South African debates and Nigerian experiences / Gunilla Andrae and Björn Beckman -- 5. Self-organized informal workers and trade union initiatives in Malawi: organizing the informal economy / Ignasio Malizani Jimu -- 6. Moments of resistance: the struggle against informalization in Cape Town / David Christoffer Jordhus-Lier -- 7. The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema. Ghana / Suzanne Scheld -- 9. Passport, please: the cross-border traders association in Zambia / Wilma S. Nchito and Karen Tranberg Hansen -- 10. Informal workers in Kenya and transnational organizing: networking and leveraging resources / Winnie V. Mitullah