The Informal Economy Revisited
This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority o...
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| description | This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority of the workforce in developing countries work in the informal economy, and in countries around the world new forms of informal employment are emerging. Yet the informal workforce is not well understood, remains undervalued and is widely stigmatised. Contributors to the volume bridge a range of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, development economics, law, political science, social policy, sociology, statistics, urban planning and design. The Informal Economy Revisited also focuses on specific groups of informal workers, including home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers, to provide a grounded insight into disciplinary debates. Ultimately, the book calls for a paradigm shift in how the informal economy is perceived to reflect the realities of informal work in the Global South, as well as the informal practices of the state and capital, not just labour. The Informal Economy Revisited is the culmination of 20 years of pioneering work by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing), a global network of researchers, development practitioners and organisations of informal workers in 90 countries. Researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and advocates will all find this book an invaluable guide to the significance and complexities of the informal economy, and its role in today’s globalised economy. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429200724, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1595752025-05-16T06:55:47Z The Informal Economy Revisited Chen, Martha Carré, Françoise UN Waste Pickers Informal economy Belo Horizonte Poverty Social Reproduction Informal Employment WIEGO Informal Workers Labour Policy Street Vending Labor Law Contributing Family Worker Taxation Urban Waste Public Administration Street Vendors Informal Waste Pickers Africa Informal Self-employment Homeworkers Dependent Contractors Women Women Informal Workers Urbanization Industrial Outworkers anthropology Social Protection Contributory Social Security development economics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority of the workforce in developing countries work in the informal economy, and in countries around the world new forms of informal employment are emerging. Yet the informal workforce is not well understood, remains undervalued and is widely stigmatised. Contributors to the volume bridge a range of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, development economics, law, political science, social policy, sociology, statistics, urban planning and design. The Informal Economy Revisited also focuses on specific groups of informal workers, including home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers, to provide a grounded insight into disciplinary debates. Ultimately, the book calls for a paradigm shift in how the informal economy is perceived to reflect the realities of informal work in the Global South, as well as the informal practices of the state and capital, not just labour. The Informal Economy Revisited is the culmination of 20 years of pioneering work by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing), a global network of researchers, development practitioners and organisations of informal workers in 90 countries. Researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and advocates will all find this book an invaluable guide to the significance and complexities of the informal economy, and its role in today’s globalised economy. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429200724, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license 2025-05-16T06:55:46Z 2025-05-16T06:55:46Z 2025-05-15T10:09:05Z 2020 book ONIX_20250515T115059_9780429577499_78 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101828 9780429577499 9780367513894 9780429575389 9780367191511 9780429200724 9780429573279 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159575 eng Routledge Explorations in Development Studies open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101828/1/9780429577499.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429200724 10.4324/9780429200724 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9780429577499 9780367513894 9780429575389 9780367191511 9780429200724 9780429573279 Routledge 326 Oxford open access |
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| topic | UN Waste Pickers Informal economy Belo Horizonte Poverty Social Reproduction Informal Employment WIEGO Informal Workers Labour Policy Street Vending Labor Law Contributing Family Worker Taxation Urban Waste Public Administration Street Vendors Informal Waste Pickers Africa Informal Self-employment Homeworkers Dependent Contractors Women Women Informal Workers Urbanization Industrial Outworkers anthropology Social Protection Contributory Social Security development economics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour |
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