The Informal Economy Revisited Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future

• Main Authors: Françoise Carré, Martha Chen
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
• Subjects: Africa; Ambulanter Handel; anthropology; Arbeitsrecht; Atypische Beschäftigung; Belo Horizonte; Business & Economics; Contributing Family Worker; Contributory Social Security; Dependent Contractors; Developing & Emerging Countries; Development; Development Economics; Development economics and emerging economies; Development studies; Economic Development; Economics; Economics and Development; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Entwicklungsländer; Heimarbeit; Homeworkers; Industrial Outworkers; Informal economy; Informal Employment; Informal sector (Economics); Informal Self-employment; Informal Waste Pickers; Informal Workers; Informelle Wirtschaft; Interdisciplinary studies; Labor Law; Labour / income economics; Labour Economics; Labour Policy; Politics and government; Poverty; Public Administration; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Schwarzarbeit; Social and ethical issues; Social discrimination and social justice; Social Protection; Social Reproduction; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Sociology: work and labour; Sozialpolitik; Sozialstandards; Street Vending; Street Vendors; Taxation; Urban Waste; Urbanization; Waste Pickers; WIEGO; Women; Women Informal Workers; Street Vending Organizations; Informal Wage Work; Social Reproduction; Informal Self-employment; Formal Wage Employment; UN; Social Protection; Waste Pickers; Belo Horizonte; Public Administration; Social Security Schemes; Informal Economy; Contributing Family Worker; Urban Informal Workers; Informal Employment; Informal Waste Pickers; Dependent Contractors; African Informal Economies; Informal Workers; Industrial Outworkers; Formal Informal Divide; Street Vending; Women Informal Workers; Contributory Social Security; Informal Worker Organisations
• ISBN: 9780367191511; 0367513897; 0367191512; 9780367513894; 0429575386; 0429573278; 0429200722; 9780429200724; 9780429577499; 9780429575389; 0429577494; 9780429573279
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429200724

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