Matteo Rizzo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3789446 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matteo Rizzo |
| NOMBRES | Matteo |
| APELLIDO | Rizzo |
| FIRMA | RIZZO M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9723-211X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
I Love Being My Own Boss (But the Work is Killing Me)
As digital employment becomes increasingly significant, a number of legal cases have emerged centred on whether digital workers should be classified as independent partners or employees. Workers' freedom in choosing whether and how long to work for an app is central to the argument by platform firms that they are mere technology providers to independent partners. Conversely, the tight control exercised by apps is emphasized by those who see ride-…
Workers' Power in Resisting Precarity
The growing precariousness of employment across the world has radically altered the conditions upon which the representation of workers' interests has traditionally been built, as it has posed challenges for established trade unions: individualized employment and fragmented identities have displaced the centrality of the workplace and the employee-employer relationship in framing collective issues of representation. In this article, we compare th…
The Political Economy of HIV in Africa
Political Economy of HIV in Africa
Tracing Occupational Mobility/Immobility among Informal Transport Workers
Chapter 6 unpicks the long-term dynamics of occupational mobility or immobility of daladala workers. By drawing on the list of the 121 transport workers who were members of the association in 2002, and by tracking their occupational whereabouts in 2009 and again in 2014, the chapter asks to what extent work as a daladalaman , notwithstanding its hardship and insecurity, fuelled dynamics of micro-accumulation and upward mobility. Semi-structured i…
Public Transport in Dar es Salaam
This chapter analyses the changing face of public transport in Dar es Salaam from independence (1961) to the present. It focuses on the structural forces that influenced the demand for, and supply of, public transport over time. The chapter will also show the way in which the trajectory of change and policymaking in public transport in Dar es Salaam mirrors the broader picture of Tanzania, and much of Africa as a whole, in its transition from dev…
Taken For A Ride
The growth of cities and informal economies are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. Taken for a Ride addresses both, drawing on long-term fieldwork in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and charting its public transport system’s journey from public to private provision. The book investigates this shift alongside the increasing deregulation of the sector and the resulting chaotic modality of public transport. It reviews stat…
The Invisibility of Wage Employment in Statistics on the Informal Economy in Africa
This article challenges the claim, along with the statistics that support it, that self-employment is by far the dominant employment status in the informal economy. The article begins by reviewing key insights from relevant literature on the informal economy to argue that conventional notions of ‘wage employment’ and ‘self-employment’, while unfit for capturing the nature and variety of employment relations in developing countries, remain central…
The political economy of HIV
Given all the positivity and self-congratulation over HIV in the international policy world, it might be hard to remember how many lives have been destroyed and continue to be devastated by this illness. Looking to UNAIDS headlines, we hear of plans for an ‘AIDS-free generation in Africa’, ‘ending the epidemic by 2030’ and ‘eliminating stigma and discrimination’. In this case, the boldness of the goals is partly driven by what Michel Sidibe ́, Ex…
The political economy of an urban megaproject
This article analyses the political economy of the Bus Rapid Transit project implemented in Dar es Salaam between 2002 and 2014. It discusses the recent rapid growth of Bus Rapid Transit systems and the vested interests of the actors promoting them as a "win-win" solution to tackle the crisis of public transport in developing countries. The article discredits such "win-win" narratives by showing what some Tanzanian actors stood to lose from the i…
Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa
Despite much research on large land deals for plantation agriculture in Africa, reliable data remain elusive, partly because of limited access to information and practical and methodological challenges. International debates are still shaped by misperceptions about how much land is being acquired, where, by whom, how and with what consequences. This article aims empirically to test some common perceptions through an analysis of findings from rese…
A response to Gundula Fischer's comment
Note on contributorMatteo Rizzo works across the Departments of Economics and Development Studies as a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His main research interests are informal labour under globalisation, urbanisation, the political economy of agrarian change (past and present) and development aid. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Taken for a Ride: Neoliberalism, Informal Labour and Tran…
Informalisation and the end of trade unionism as we knew it? Dissenting remarks from a Tanzanian case study
This paper analyses the political organisation by informal transport workers, and their partial achievements in claiming rights at work from employers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, from 1995 to the present. The paper takes issue with the influential view that, due to widespread economic informalisation, trade unionism and workplace labourism are no longer a viable option for defending workers' interests. From less despondent approach…
Life is War'
This article analyses how informal labourers fare under flexible labour markets and economic liberalization, through a case study of transport workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It highlights the mainstream conceptualization of urban informality as self-employment and its influence on policy. The article stresses the importance of class differentiation in the Dar es Salaam transport sector and the predominance of informal wage employment, the un…
Do Peasants Need GM Crops
Si tratta di una review di una monografia di Annette Aurélie Desmarais sul movimento internazionale "La Vía Campesina". La recensione analizza in particolare il ruolo che gioca il fatto che l'autrice sia una insider del movimento e come da una parte costituisca un valore aggiunto all'analisi dettagliata della nascita e storia del movimento medesimo e dall'altra ne costituisca un limite, un impedimento alla percezione delle sue contraddizioni e un…
The Struggle for Alternatives
This paper analyzes the response by NGOs to the 2008 World Development Report (WDR08). It does so at two levels of analysis, which in turn reflect two possible ways of reading the WDR08. The first is to read the WDR08 as a document for policy guidance on ‘agriculture for development’. In this respect the paper shows how NGOs expose and challenge the WDR08's optimism for the benign impact of unregulated agribusiness investment on poverty reduction…
Becoming wealthy
This paper analyses the life history of a rural entrepreneur in late colonial and postcolonial Tanganyika, Julius Mtenda. Based on oral and archival evidence, including Mtenda’s own diaries and private papers, this study examines the historical events that allowed him to move from poverty to relative prosperity, the rationale behind his investments, and the way in which he negotiated the challenges to accumulation that confronted him in the rural…
What Was Left of the Groundnut Scheme? Development Disaster and Labour Market in Southern Tanganyika 1946-1952
The East African Groundnut Scheme in Tanganyika is probably the most dramatic and most cited failure of the ambitions of British late colonial developmentalism. Issues of labour supply in the scheme's short history, and the relationship of labour supply with the peasant economy of Southern Province, have received almost no attention, a gap which this article aims to begin to fill. It suggests that the implementation of the scheme gave rise to a p…
What is left of the Groundnut Scheme
Being taken for a ride
This paper analyses the effects of privatisation and deregulation of the Dar es Salaam transport system. It starts with an account of the decline of the government-owned transport company and the first opening of the market to private buses in 1983. The analysis then moves to the progressive deregulation of the sector and its impact on transport supply. Competition between private operators in the oversupplied market manifests itself in non-compl…
What Was Left of the Groundnut Scheme? Development Disaster and Labour Market in Southern Tanganyika 1946-1952
The East African Groundnut Scheme in Tanganyika is probably the most dramatic and most cited failure of the ambitions of British late colonial developmentalism. Issues of labour supply in the scheme's short history, and the relationship of labour supply with the peasant economy of Southern Province, have received almost no attention, a gap which this article aims to begin to fill. It suggests that the implementation of the scheme gave rise to a p…
Workers' Power in Resisting Precarity
The growing precariousness of employment across the world has radically altered the conditions upon which the representation of workers' interests has traditionally been built, as it has posed challenges for established trade unions: individualized employment and fragmented identities have displaced the centrality of the workplace and the employee-employer relationship in framing collective issues of representation. In this article, we compare th…
Life is War'
This article analyses how informal labourers fare under flexible labour markets and economic liberalization, through a case study of transport workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It highlights the mainstream conceptualization of urban informality as self-employment and its influence on policy. The article stresses the importance of class differentiation in the Dar es Salaam transport sector and the predominance of informal wage employment, the un…
Being taken for a ride
This paper analyses the effects of privatisation and deregulation of the Dar es Salaam transport system. It starts with an account of the decline of the government-owned transport company and the first opening of the market to private buses in 1983. The analysis then moves to the progressive deregulation of the sector and its impact on transport supply. Competition between private operators in the oversupplied market manifests itself in non-compl…
Informalisation and the end of trade unionism as we knew it? Dissenting remarks from a Tanzanian case study
This paper analyses the political organisation by informal transport workers, and their partial achievements in claiming rights at work from employers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, from 1995 to the present. The paper takes issue with the influential view that, due to widespread economic informalisation, trade unionism and workplace labourism are no longer a viable option for defending workers' interests. From less despondent approach…
The political economy of an urban megaproject
This article analyses the political economy of the Bus Rapid Transit project implemented in Dar es Salaam between 2002 and 2014. It discusses the recent rapid growth of Bus Rapid Transit systems and the vested interests of the actors promoting them as a "win-win" solution to tackle the crisis of public transport in developing countries. The article discredits such "win-win" narratives by showing what some Tanzanian actors stood to lose from the i…
Becoming wealthy
This paper analyses the life history of a rural entrepreneur in late colonial and postcolonial Tanganyika, Julius Mtenda. Based on oral and archival evidence, including Mtenda’s own diaries and private papers, this study examines the historical events that allowed him to move from poverty to relative prosperity, the rationale behind his investments, and the way in which he negotiated the challenges to accumulation that confronted him in the rural…
Do Peasants Need GM Crops
Si tratta di una review di una monografia di Annette Aurélie Desmarais sul movimento internazionale "La Vía Campesina". La recensione analizza in particolare il ruolo che gioca il fatto che l'autrice sia una insider del movimento e come da una parte costituisca un valore aggiunto all'analisi dettagliata della nascita e storia del movimento medesimo e dall'altra ne costituisca un limite, un impedimento alla percezione delle sue contraddizioni e un…
Taken For A Ride
The growth of cities and informal economies are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. Taken for a Ride addresses both, drawing on long-term fieldwork in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and charting its public transport system’s journey from public to private provision. The book investigates this shift alongside the increasing deregulation of the sector and the resulting chaotic modality of public transport. It reviews stat…
The political economy of HIV
Given all the positivity and self-congratulation over HIV in the international policy world, it might be hard to remember how many lives have been destroyed and continue to be devastated by this illness. Looking to UNAIDS headlines, we hear of plans for an ‘AIDS-free generation in Africa’, ‘ending the epidemic by 2030’ and ‘eliminating stigma and discrimination’. In this case, the boldness of the goals is partly driven by what Michel Sidibe ́, Ex…
The Struggle for Alternatives
This paper analyzes the response by NGOs to the 2008 World Development Report (WDR08). It does so at two levels of analysis, which in turn reflect two possible ways of reading the WDR08. The first is to read the WDR08 as a document for policy guidance on ‘agriculture for development’. In this respect the paper shows how NGOs expose and challenge the WDR08's optimism for the benign impact of unregulated agribusiness investment on poverty reduction…
What is left of the Groundnut Scheme
Being taken for a ride
This paper analyses the effects of privatisation and deregulation of the Dar es Salaam transport system. It starts with an account of the decline of the government-owned transport company and the first opening of the market to private buses in 1983. The analysis then moves to the progressive deregulation of the sector and its impact on transport supply. Competition between private operators in the oversupplied market manifests itself in non-compl…
What is left of the Groundnut Scheme
What Was Left of the Groundnut Scheme? Development Disaster and Labour Market in Southern Tanganyika 1946-1952
The East African Groundnut Scheme in Tanganyika is probably the most dramatic and most cited failure of the ambitions of British late colonial developmentalism. Issues of labour supply in the scheme's short history, and the relationship of labour supply with the peasant economy of Southern Province, have received almost no attention, a gap which this article aims to begin to fill. It suggests that the implementation of the scheme gave rise to a p…
The Struggle for Alternatives
This paper analyzes the response by NGOs to the 2008 World Development Report (WDR08). It does so at two levels of analysis, which in turn reflect two possible ways of reading the WDR08. The first is to read the WDR08 as a document for policy guidance on ‘agriculture for development’. In this respect the paper shows how NGOs expose and challenge the WDR08's optimism for the benign impact of unregulated agribusiness investment on poverty reduction…
Becoming wealthy
This paper analyses the life history of a rural entrepreneur in late colonial and postcolonial Tanganyika, Julius Mtenda. Based on oral and archival evidence, including Mtenda’s own diaries and private papers, this study examines the historical events that allowed him to move from poverty to relative prosperity, the rationale behind his investments, and the way in which he negotiated the challenges to accumulation that confronted him in the rural…
Do Peasants Need GM Crops
Si tratta di una review di una monografia di Annette Aurélie Desmarais sul movimento internazionale "La Vía Campesina". La recensione analizza in particolare il ruolo che gioca il fatto che l'autrice sia una insider del movimento e come da una parte costituisca un valore aggiunto all'analisi dettagliata della nascita e storia del movimento medesimo e dall'altra ne costituisca un limite, un impedimento alla percezione delle sue contraddizioni e un…
Life is War'
This article analyses how informal labourers fare under flexible labour markets and economic liberalization, through a case study of transport workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It highlights the mainstream conceptualization of urban informality as self-employment and its influence on policy. The article stresses the importance of class differentiation in the Dar es Salaam transport sector and the predominance of informal wage employment, the un…
Informalisation and the end of trade unionism as we knew it? Dissenting remarks from a Tanzanian case study
This paper analyses the political organisation by informal transport workers, and their partial achievements in claiming rights at work from employers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, from 1995 to the present. The paper takes issue with the influential view that, due to widespread economic informalisation, trade unionism and workplace labourism are no longer a viable option for defending workers' interests. From less despondent approach…
Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa
Despite much research on large land deals for plantation agriculture in Africa, reliable data remain elusive, partly because of limited access to information and practical and methodological challenges. International debates are still shaped by misperceptions about how much land is being acquired, where, by whom, how and with what consequences. This article aims empirically to test some common perceptions through an analysis of findings from rese…
A response to Gundula Fischer's comment
Note on contributorMatteo Rizzo works across the Departments of Economics and Development Studies as a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His main research interests are informal labour under globalisation, urbanisation, the political economy of agrarian change (past and present) and development aid. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Taken for a Ride: Neoliberalism, Informal Labour and Tran…
The Invisibility of Wage Employment in Statistics on the Informal Economy in Africa
This article challenges the claim, along with the statistics that support it, that self-employment is by far the dominant employment status in the informal economy. The article begins by reviewing key insights from relevant literature on the informal economy to argue that conventional notions of ‘wage employment’ and ‘self-employment’, while unfit for capturing the nature and variety of employment relations in developing countries, remain central…
The political economy of HIV
Given all the positivity and self-congratulation over HIV in the international policy world, it might be hard to remember how many lives have been destroyed and continue to be devastated by this illness. Looking to UNAIDS headlines, we hear of plans for an ‘AIDS-free generation in Africa’, ‘ending the epidemic by 2030’ and ‘eliminating stigma and discrimination’. In this case, the boldness of the goals is partly driven by what Michel Sidibe ́, Ex…
The political economy of an urban megaproject
This article analyses the political economy of the Bus Rapid Transit project implemented in Dar es Salaam between 2002 and 2014. It discusses the recent rapid growth of Bus Rapid Transit systems and the vested interests of the actors promoting them as a "win-win" solution to tackle the crisis of public transport in developing countries. The article discredits such "win-win" narratives by showing what some Tanzanian actors stood to lose from the i…
Tracing Occupational Mobility/Immobility among Informal Transport Workers
Chapter 6 unpicks the long-term dynamics of occupational mobility or immobility of daladala workers. By drawing on the list of the 121 transport workers who were members of the association in 2002, and by tracking their occupational whereabouts in 2009 and again in 2014, the chapter asks to what extent work as a daladalaman , notwithstanding its hardship and insecurity, fuelled dynamics of micro-accumulation and upward mobility. Semi-structured i…
Public Transport in Dar es Salaam
This chapter analyses the changing face of public transport in Dar es Salaam from independence (1961) to the present. It focuses on the structural forces that influenced the demand for, and supply of, public transport over time. The chapter will also show the way in which the trajectory of change and policymaking in public transport in Dar es Salaam mirrors the broader picture of Tanzania, and much of Africa as a whole, in its transition from dev…
Taken For A Ride
The growth of cities and informal economies are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. Taken for a Ride addresses both, drawing on long-term fieldwork in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and charting its public transport system’s journey from public to private provision. The book investigates this shift alongside the increasing deregulation of the sector and the resulting chaotic modality of public transport. It reviews stat…
The Political Economy of HIV in Africa
Political Economy of HIV in Africa
Workers' Power in Resisting Precarity
The growing precariousness of employment across the world has radically altered the conditions upon which the representation of workers' interests has traditionally been built, as it has posed challenges for established trade unions: individualized employment and fragmented identities have displaced the centrality of the workplace and the employee-employer relationship in framing collective issues of representation. In this article, we compare th…
I Love Being My Own Boss (But the Work is Killing Me)
As digital employment becomes increasingly significant, a number of legal cases have emerged centred on whether digital workers should be classified as independent partners or employees. Workers' freedom in choosing whether and how long to work for an app is central to the argument by platform firms that they are mere technology providers to independent partners. Conversely, the tight control exercised by apps is emphasized by those who see ride-…
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