1st Edition
Informal Employment in Advanced Economies Implications for Work and Welfare
236 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Examining Informal Employment; Chapter 2 Methods of Researching Informal Employment; Chapter 3 Theorising Informal Employment; Part 2 Socio-Spatial Divisions in Informal Employment; Chapter 4 Employment Status and Informal Employment; Chapter 5 Gender and Informal Employment; Chapter 6 Ethnicity, Immigration and Informal Employment; Chapter 7 Spatial Divisions in Informal Employment; Chapter 8 Informal Employment in Developing Nations; Part 3 What is to be Done About Informal Employment?; Chapter 9 Regulating Informal Employment; Chapter 10 Deregulating Formal Employment; Chapter 11 Informal Employment and the New Economics; Chapter 12 Conclusions: Re-Placing Informal Employment in the Advanced Economies;
Biography
Colin C.Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at the University of Leicester,
Jan Windebank is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Sheffield.
