Making a Living from Old Shoes

Tanzanian Street Vendors as Urban Experts

af Mareile Flitsch, m.fl.

While many people believe that their used clothes donations are distributed free of charge to the needy in the Third World, the trade in second-hand clothes is actually an international business. The book provides ethnographic insights into the life of a group of street dealers of the Tanzanian multi-million metropolis Dar es Salaam.