Precarious Labour and Informal Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Precarious Labour and Informal Economy write by Smita Yadav. This book was released on 2018-06-13. Precarious Labour and Informal Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An empirical account of one of India’s largest indigenous populations, this book tells the story of the Gonds—who currently face displacement and governmental control of the region’s forests, which has crippled their economy. Rather than protesting and calling for state intervention, the Gonds have turned toward an informal economy: they not only engage with flexible forms of work, but also bargain for higher wages and experience agency and autonomy. Smita Yadav conceives of this withdrawal from the state in favour of precarious forms of work as an expression of anarchy by this marginalized population. Even as she provides rich detail of the Gonds’ unusual working lives, which integrate work, labour, and debt practices with ideologies of family and society, Yadav illustrates the strength required to maintain dignity when a welfare state has failed.
Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work
Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work write by Rob Lambert. This book was released on 2016-03-25. Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. Divided into two parts, the first section of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years. These transformations are captured in ethnographically orientated chapters on sweatshops; day labour; homework; unpaid contract work of Chinese construction workers; the introduction of insecure contracting in the Korean automotive industry; and the insecurity of Brazilian cane cutters. The editors and contributors then collectively explore trade union initiatives in the face of precarious work and stimulate debate on the issue.
The Global Informal Workforce
The Global Informal Workforce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Global Informal Workforce write by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-07-23. The Global Informal Workforce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the macroeconomy. The book covers interactions between the informal economy, labor and product markets, gender equality, fiscal institutions and outcomes, social protection, and financial inclusion. Informality is a widespread and persistent phenomenon that affects how fast economies can grow, develop, and provide decent economic opportunities for their populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to uncover the vulnerabilities of the informal workforce.
Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India
Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India write by Rina Agarwala. This book was released on 2013-04-08. Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1980s, the world's governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected 'informal' or 'precarious' workers. As a result, more and more workers do not receive secure wages or benefits from either employers or the state. This book offers a fresh and provocative look into the alternative social movements informal workers in India are launching. It also offers a unique analysis of the conditions under which these movements succeed or fail. Drawing from 300 interviews with informal workers, government officials and union leaders, Rina Agarwala argues that Indian informal workers are using their power as voters to demand welfare benefits from the state, rather than demanding traditional work benefits from employers. In addition, they are organizing at the neighborhood level, rather than the shop floor, and appealing to 'citizenship', rather than labor rights.
Workers and the Global Informal Economy
Workers and the Global Informal Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Workers and the Global Informal Economy write by Supriya Routh. This book was released on 2016-04-20. Workers and the Global Informal Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic. Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly precarious position of the informal worker. Using different methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what role culture plays in the determination of informality. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers and researchers engaging with informality from different disciplinary and regional perspectives.
