Organising Everyday Resistance: An Ethnographic Study of Rickshaw Drivers in Bogotá

Workers in the informal transport sector are often exposed to multiple forms of workplace violence, for instance by police and their colleagues. Through a collection rich ethnographic stories using concept popular resistance, this article investigates how under what conditions rickshaw drivers Bogotá resist violence workplace. The results reveal that associations have been essential articulating acts everyday resistance legal ban on activity, such regulating routes, fees stops. However, created new oppression, being labelled as mafia‐like organisations, showing can also translate into domination. Contrary argument is uncoordinated, shows be organised actors switch between different individual collective strategies. Thus, organisations provide framework law an basis.