Informal work in developed nations [electronic resource] / edited by Enrico Marcelli, Colin C. Williams and Pascale Joassart.
The authors of this volume take the orthodox view of 'informal work' and dismantle it piece by piece, presenting an analysis of the extent to which this phenomenon plays a significant role in developing countries across the world.
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Enrico Marcelli, Colin C. Williams, and Pascale Joassart
- The changing conceptualizations of informal work in developed economies / Colin C. Williams
- Measuring informal work in developed nations / Pascale Joassart
- Informal work in the diverse economies of "post-Socialist" Europe / Adrian Smith
- Informal employment in the work-welfare arrangement of Germany / Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Slad̄ana Sakač-Magdalenić
- Gender and informal work / Jan Windebank and Colin C. Williams
- Geographical variations in informal work in contemporary England / Colin C. Williams
- The fallacy of the formal and informal divide: lessons from a post-Fordist regional economy / Simone Ghezzi
- Day laborers in New York's informal economy / Edwin Meléndez, Nik Theodore and Abel Valenzuela, Jr.
- Effects of wage and hour law enforcement on informal work / Jordan Rickles and Paul M. Ong
- The diverse nature of informal work in California / Enrico Marcelli
- Informal work in rural America: theory and evidence / Tim Slack and Leif Jensen
- Informal work in Canada / Bernard Fortin and Guy Lacroix
- Conclusions / Colin C. Williams and Enrico Marcelli.