Informal Networks in Street Vending and Unequal Development of Labor Process in Bursa Işın Ulaş Ertuğrul The significance of informal economic activities has been increasing since the early 1970s. These activities become widespread worldwide are increasingly related to the informalization process of the formal economic sphere. More and more multinational corporations and local firms have begun to segment their production and distribution units through the small firms. The rational is that the small firms could more easily avoid from the official controls than those of larger firms. Therefore, the subcontracting has been the dominant form of production. On the other hand, many firms have realized their distribution activities by means of street vendors. Today, the street vending activity is being enlarged due to internal migration and reproduced by means of informal networks which are effective on solving housing and employment problems for migrants. The main argument of this study is that the working process of the street vending develops unequally. The findings of this case study carried out in Bursa, show that while many of the poor could afford their everyday lives by the means of street vending activity, the hierarchically established relationship between them causes gaining substancial amount of accumulation for some ones.