Informal employment in the advanced economies : implications for work and welfare
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Informal employment in the advanced economies : implications for work and welfare
Routledge, 1998
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 33 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-212) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 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
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