Workers and the Global Informal Economy - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367668424 ISBN 13 : 9780367668426

Editeur : Routledge, 2020

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367668424
• ISBN 13: 9780367668426
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Routh Supriya, Borghi Vando
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne