Williams С.С., Windebank J. Informal employment in the advanced economies. Implications for work and welfare

London: Routledger, 1998. — 240 p. — ISBN-10 0415169607.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.Introduction
Examining informal employment: methods and theory
Methods of researching informal employment
Theorising informal employment
Socio-spatial divisions in informal employment
Employment status and informal employment
Gender and informal employment
Ethnicity, immigration and informal employment
Spatial divisions in informal employment
Informal employment in developing nations
What is to be done about informal employment? Evaluating the policy options
Regulating informal employment
Deregulating formal employment
Informal employment and die new economics
Conclusions: re-placing informal employment in the advanced economies
Notes
References
Index