CiNii Books - Social contracts and informal workers in the Global South

Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust. Bridging social contract theories, both mainstream and critical, and the experiences of informal workers - self-employed, wage employed and sub-contracted - this book sheds light on how many existing social contract models stigmatize informal workers and do not offer legal or social protection. Instead of ideologically driven 'top-down' calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for 'bottom-up' initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy. With a wealth of cross-national evidence, as well as promising case studies, this timely and thought-provoking book will prove vital for scholars and researchers of informal workers and of state-capital-labour relations; and for policy makers negotiating new social contracts.

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Contents: Introduction: social contracts and informal workers in the global South 1 Sophie Plagerson, Laura Alfers and Martha Chen 1 Recognition, responsiveness and reciprocity: what informal worker leaders expect from the state, the private sector and themselves 31 Sally Roever and Ana Carolina Ogando 2 Self-employment and social contracts: from the perspective of the informal self-employed 49 Martha Chen 3 "Dependent Contractor": towards the recognitions of a new labor category 73 Francoise Carre 4 Taxation and the informal sector in the global South: strengthening the social contract without reciprocity? 85 Michael Rogan 5 Towards a more inclusive social protection: informal workers and the struggle for a new social contract 106 Laura Alfers and Rachel Moussie 6 Extended Producer Responsibility: opportunities and challenges for waste pickers 126 Taylor Cass Talbott 7 Human rights and transnational social contracts: the recognition and inclusion of homeworkers? 144 Marlese von Broembsen 8 Informal workers harnessing the power of digital platforms in India 169 Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur 9 "Essential and disposable? Or just disposable?" Informal workers during COVID-19 189 Sarah Orleans Reed Conclusion: Post-pandemic epilogue - the bad old contract, an even worse contract or a better social contract for informal workers? 216 Laura Alfers, Martha Chen and Sophie Plagerson Index

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