LEADER 04433nam 2200505 450 001 9910647211803321 005 20221220154336.0 010 $a1-83910-806-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7019540 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7019540 035 $a(CKB)23931900600041 035 $aEBL7019540 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL7019540 035 $a(UtOrBLW)eep9781839108068 035 $a(EXLCZ)9923931900600041 100 $a20221220d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aSocial contracts and informal workers in the global south /$fedited by Laura Alfers, Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, South Africa and Director, Social Protection Programme, WIEGO, UK, Martha Chen, Lecturer of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, US and Senior Advisor, WIEGO, UK, Sophie Plagerson, Visiting Associate Professor, Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and independent consultant, the Netherlands 210 1$aNorthampton :$cEdward Elgar Publishing,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (252 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: Alfers, Laura Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,c2022 9781839108051 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction: social contracts and informal workers in the global South -- 1. Recognition, responsiveness and reciprocity: what informal worker leaders expect from the state, the private sector and themselves -- 2. Self-employment and social contracts from the perspective of the informal self-employed -- 3. "Dependent Contractor": towards the recognition of a new labor category -- 4. Taxation and the informal sector in the global South: strengthening the social contract without reciprocity? -- 5. Towards a more inclusive social protection: informal workers and the struggle for a new social contract -- 6. Extended Producer Responsibility: opportunities and challenges for waste pickers -- 7. Human rights and transnational social contracts: the recognition and inclusion of homeworkers? -- 8. Informal workers harnessing the power of digital platforms in India -- 9. "Essential and disposable? Or just disposable?" Informal workers during COVID-19 -- Conclusion: Post-pandemic epilogue - the bad old contract, an even worse contractor a better social contract for informal workers? -- Index. 330 $a"Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust. Bridging social contract theories, both mainstream and critical, and the experiences of informal workers - self-employed, wage employed and sub-contracted - this book sheds light on how many existing social contract models stigmatize informal workers and do not offer legal or social protection. Instead of ideologically driven 'top-down' calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for 'bottom-up' initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy. With a wealth of cross-national evidence, as well as promising case studies, this timely and thought-provoking book will prove vital for scholars and researchers of informal workers and of state-capital-labour relations; and for policy makers negotiating new social contracts"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aSocial contract 606 $aInformal sector (Economics)$zDeveloping countries 615 0$aSocial contract. 615 0$aInformal sector (Economics) 676 $a331.1091724 702 $aAlfers$b Laura 702 $aChen$b Martha Alter 702 $aPlagerson$b Sophie 712 02$aEdward Elgar Publishing, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910647211803321 996 $aSocial contracts and informal workers in the global south$93012681 997 $aUNINA