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1. The Role of 'Informal' Economies in the Post-Soviet World

   The End of Transition?

   By Peter Rodgers, John Round, Colin C. Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book challenges the accepted notion that the transition from the command economy to market based systems is complete across the post-Soviet space. While it is noted that different political economies have developed in such states, such as Russia’s ‘managed democracy’, events such as Ukraine...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Informal Work in Developed Nations

   Edited by Enrico Marcelli, Colin C. Williams, Pascale Joassart

   Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics

   Almost everyone residing in a developed nation knows someone who has engaged in paid work that is licit but not reported to the government (e.g., babysitting, gardening, construction, financial consulting). But while most acknowledge that such work is helpful to the individuals involved, and that...

   Published July 6th 2009 by Routledge
3. Poverty and the Third Way

   Edited by Colin C Williams, Colin C. Williams, Jan Windebank

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow party political context, this book argues that it is necessary to harness work beyond employment in order to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. The outcome is a thought-provoking new approach towards...

   Published November 20th 2002 by Routledge
4. Informal Employment in Advanced Economies

   Implications for Work and Welfare

   By Colin C. Williams, Jan Windebank

   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...

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
5. Consumer Services and Economic Development

   By Colin C. Williams

   Consumer Services have been viewed as parasitic activities, dependent on other sectors of the economy for their viability and vitality. Yet local economic policy is now looking towards consumer services to solve severe economic problems. The rapid expansion of the service sector is now a principal...

   Published April 16th 1997 by Routledge