Why informal workers organize : contentious politics, enforcement, and the state / Calla Hummel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hummel, Calla, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions.

Informal sector (Economics)--Employees--Labor unions.

Informal sector (Economics).

Collective bargaining.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This text examines the organization of informal workers across the globe, and the differing degrees to which they vary. The reality of informal work described in this book is supported by surveys in 60 countries, over 150 interviews with informal workers in Latin America, ethnographic data, and administrative data.

Contents:

Cover

Why Informal Workers Organize

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

1 Why Do Informal Workers Organize?

1.1 Informal Markets, Informal Workers, and Their Organizations

1.2 The Argument

1.3 Research Methods for Informal Markets

1.4 Organization of the Book

2 State Intervention in Collective Action

2.1 Collective Action

2.2 Argument

2.3 Formal Model

3 Informal Work in Numbers

3.1 Organizing by Numbers

3.2 Estimating Informality with Machine Learning

3.3 Regression Analyses

3.4 Case Selection

4 Street Markets in La Paz and São Paulo

4.1 A History of Market Organizations in La Paz

4.2 A History of Street Vending in São Paulo

4.3 Who Are Street Vendors?

4.4 Grounding the Model's Assumptions in Ethnographic Data

5 Managing Contentious Collective Action

5.1 Increasing Costs, Increasing Offers, and Increasing Levels of Organization

5.2 Who Benefits from Organized Street Vendors?

6 How to Make Money while Running from the Cops

6.1 El Alto

6.2 Vila Velha and Princesa Isabela

6.3 Individual Differences

7 Conclusion

7.1 Informal Sector Policies

7.2 Broader Implications

Theory Appendix

Game Theoretic Model and Proofs

Robustness Checks and Extensions

Quantitative Appendix

Survey Data

Random Forest Models

Fieldwork Appendix

Fieldwork Protocols

Original Surveys and Analyses

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-266362-3

0-19-194319-3

0-19-266361-5

OCLC:

1283843858