The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future

ISBN-13: 9780367191511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 326 str.

Martha Chen; Françoise Carré

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This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy. Researchers, practitioners and policy makers will find this book an invaluable guide to the significance of the informal economy.

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INTRODUCTION – Martha Chen and Françoise Carré  PART 1 – THE INFORMAL ECONOMY REVISITED  1. Informality: The Bane of the Labouring Poor under Globalized Capitalism – Jan Breman  2. India’s Informal Economy: Past, Present and Future – Barbara Harriss-White  PART 2 – INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT: ADVANCES IN STATISTICS AND RESEARCH  3. Informal Employment: Advances in Statistics and WlEGO’s Contribution – Joann Vanek  4. Informal Employment in Developed Countries: Relevance and Statistical Measurement – Françoise Carré  5. The Measurement of Informal Employment in Mexico – Rodrigo Negrete  6. WIEGO Research on Informal Employment: Key Methods, Variables and Findings – Martha Chen  PART 3 – ECONOMICS AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY  7. Assessing Taxation and Informality: Disaggregated Frameworks Matter – Ravi Kanbur  8. Informality and the Dynamics of the Structure of Employment – James Heintz  9. Old and New Forms of Informal Employment – Uma Rani  10. Tax and the Informal Economy: Lessons from South Africa – Imraan Valodia and David Francis  11. (Re)conceptualizing Poverty and Informal Employment – Michael Rogan and Paul Cichello  PART 4 – LABOUR LAW AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY  12. Revising Labour Law for Work – Judy Fudge  13. Domestic Workers and Informality: Challenging Invisibility, Regulating Inclusion – Adelle Blackett  14. Enforcement of Labour Standards in Developing Countries: Challenges and Solutions – Michael J. Piore  PART 5 - URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN: INCLUDING INFORMAL LIVELIHOODS  15. The Informal Economy in Urban Africa: Challenging Planning Theory and Praxis – Caroline Skinner and Vanessa Watson  16. Urban Design: Imaginations beyond Architecture – Rahul Mehrotra  17. Informality, Housing and Work: The View from Indian Cities – Gautam Bhan  PART 6 – HOMEWORKERS: EXTENDING LABOUR RIGHTS IN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS  18. Regulating Corporations in Global Value Chains to Realize Labour Rights for Homeworkers – Marlese von Broembsen  19. Extending Labour Standards to Informal Workers at the Base of Global Garment Value Chains: New Institutions in the Labour Market – Meenu Tewari  PART 7 - STREET VENDORS: POLITICS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR INCLUSION  20. Street Vendors and Planning Paradigms – Amin Y. Kamete  21. Street Vending and the State: Challenging Theory, Changing Research – Veronica Crossa  22. Street Vendors and Regulations – Sally Roever  PART 8 - WASTE PICKERS: INTEGRATION AND RIGHTS IN PUBLIC WASTE MANAGEMENT  23. Waste Pickers and Their Right to the City: Dispossession and Displacement in 19^th Century Paris and Contemporary Montevideo – Lucía Fernandez  24. Managing Urban Waste as a Common Pool Resource – Jérémie Cavé  25. The Political Work of Waste Picker Integration – Melanie Samson  PART 9 – SOCIAL POLICY AND INFORMAL WORKERS  26. The Place of Informal Workers in Different Approaches to Social Protection – Francie Lund  27. Social Protection and Informal Workers: Rethinking the Terms of Inclusion – Laura Alfers  28. Social Protection for Women Informal Workers: Perspectives from Latin America – Silke Staab  29. Informal Workers in a Context of Urbanisation and Migration: Reflections from China for Social Policy in Asia – Sarah Cook  30. Realising Employer Liability for Workers in Informal Employment: Lessons from India – Kamala Sankaran  PART 10 – INFORMAL WORKERS AND THE STATE  31. Deciphering African Informal Economies – Kate Meagher  32. Informal Workers and the State in India – Rina Agarwala  33. Informal Domestic Workers, Informal Construction Workers and the State: What Prospects for Improving Labour Standards? – Chris Tilly  34. Waste and Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State in Brazil – Sonia Dias  CONCLUSION – Martha Chen, Françoise Carré and Sally Roever  Bibliography