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

• Autore: Williams Colin C. <1961->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 222 p
• Disciplina: 362.5/8
• Soggetto topico: Welfare recipients - Employment; Informal sector (Economics); Public welfare
• Altri autori: WindebankJ (Janice)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Informal employment in the advanced economies
• ISBN: 1-134-70087-3; 9786610058327; 1-280-05832-3; 0-203-00328-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815440203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II