The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the FutureMartha Chen, Françoise Carré 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 |
Contents
the bane of the labouring poor under globalised capitalism | |
past present and future | |
an overview highlighting | |
The measurement of informal employment in Mexico | |
key methods variables | |
disaggregated frameworks matter | |
imaginations beyond architecture | |
Regulating corporations in global value chains to realise labour rights | |
Street vendors and planning paradigms | |
dispossession and displacement | |
The political work of waste picker integration | |
rethinking the terms of inclusion | |
perspectives from Latin | |
Deciphering African informal economies | |
Other editions - View all
The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future Martha Alter Chen,Françoise Carré No preview available - 2020 |
The Informal Economy Revisited Open Access: Examining the Past, Envisioning ... Martha Alter Chen,Franoise Carr No preview available - 2020 |
The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future Martha Alter Chen,Françoise J. Carré No preview available - 2022 |