At Christmas and on rainy days
Subtitle: transport, travel and the female traders of Accra
By: [edited by] Margaret Grieco, Nana Apt, Jeff Turner.
Contributors: Grieco, Margaret, 1950-; Apt, Nana A.; Turner, Jeff.
Publisher: Avebury
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Aldershot; Brookfield, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Retail trade -- Ghana -- Accra.; Women merchants -- Ghana -- Accra.; Women -- Ghana -- Accra -- Economic conditions.
Description: At Christmas and on rainy days, the women traders of Accra make use of taxis and other high cost forms of transport. On normal days, many transport their goods and themselves in overcrowded, poorly ventilated mini-buses (tro-tros). This book examines the relationships between household organization, petty trading and the informal public transport system. It documents the travel and transport strategies of Accra's female traders as they go about the task of household survival in a petty trading economy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-247) and  index.