1st Edition
Gender & Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy
By Naila Kabeer
Copyright 2008
398 Pages
by
Routledge India
398 Pages
by
Routledge India
398 Pages
by
Routledge India
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The vast majority of the world’s working women, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, are located in the informal economy in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and protective legislation. This book examines the constraints and barriers which continue to confine women to these forms of work and what... Read more
List of Boxes and Tables List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Foreword 1. Risk, Vulnerability and Social Protection: International Perspectives 2. Gender and Trends in the Global Labour Force: New and Persisting Forms of Vulnerability 3. Gender, Life Course and Livelihoods: Analytical Framework and Empirical Insights 4. Preventing Child Labour, Promoting Education: Disrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty 5. Alternative Approaches to Employment-based Social Protection 6. Financial Services for Women in the Informal Economy: Protecting and Promoting Livelihoods 7. Pensions and Transfers: Social Protection in Old Age 8. The Indispensability of Voice: Organising for Social Protection in the Informal Economy 9. Towards a ‘Generative’ Model of Social Protection: Making the Links to Development Policy Bibliography About the Author Index
Biography
Naila Kabeer is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK.
