ABSTRACT
Re-Placing Informal Employment challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities, and offers a radical reassesment of their extent, growth, location and nature.
The book uses case studies from the UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the US and Canada to challenge:
* the popular belief that informal employment is growing throughout the advanced economies
* the myth that this work is undertaken mostly by marginalized groups
* the dominant view that we should replace informal with formal employment through enforcement of regulations.
Examining policy options and their consequences, the authors show that conventional approaches only increase inequalities and that a radical alternative solution is essential.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introduction
part |38 pages
Examining Informal Employment
chapter |15 pages
Methods of Researching Informal Employment
chapter |21 pages
Theorising Informal Employment
part |81 pages
Socio-Spatial Divisions in Informal Employment
chapter |17 pages
Employment Status and Informal Employment
chapter |16 pages
Gender and Informal Employment
chapter |16 pages
Ethnicity, Immigration and Informal Employment
chapter |14 pages
Spatial Divisions in Informal Employment
chapter |16 pages
Informal Employment in Developing Nations
part |53 pages
What is to be Done About Informal Employment?