Informal employment in the advanced economies : implications for work and welfare / Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Colin C., 1961-

Contributor:

Windebank, J. (Janice)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare recipients--Employment.

Welfare recipients.

Informal sector (Economics).

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

xii, 222 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover

Informal Employment in the Advanced Economies

Copyright Page

Contents

List of tables and figure

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Part I: Examining informal employment: methods and theory

2. Methods of researching informal employment

3. Theorising informal employment

Part II: Socio-spatial divisions in informal employment

4. Employment status and informal employment

5. Gender and informal employment

6. Ethnicity, immigration and informal employment

7. Spatial divisions in informal employment

8. Informal employment in developing nations

Part III: What is to be done about informal employment? Evaluating the policy options

9. Regulating informal employment

10. Deregulating formal employment

11. Informal employment and the new economics

12. Conclusions: re-placing informal employment in the advanced economies

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-70087-3

9786610058327

1-280-05832-3

0-203-00328-4

9780203003282

OCLC:

437078616