Workers and the Global Informal Economy: Interdisciplinary perspectives (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138904724 ISBN 13: 9781138904729

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic.

Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly precarious position of the informal worker. Using different methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what role culture plays in the determination of informality.

This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers and researchers engaging with informality from different disciplinary and regional perspectives.

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About the Author

Supriya Routh is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada.

Vando Borghi is associate professor at the School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138904724
• ISBN 13: 9781138904729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Routh Supriya, Borghi Vando