- Title
- A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy, by Colin C. Williams
- Creator
- Rogan, Michael
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473700
- Identifier
- vital:77674
- Identifier
- https://ilr-rit.org/article/id/19385/
- Description
- Colin C. Williams’ new book, A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy, offers a timely analysis of a segment of the global workforce that has received increasing atten tion in recent years. A range of different measures suggest that, globally, the vast majority (61 per cent) of all employment is informal.1 Once thought to be exclusive to labour markets in middle- and low-income countries, the rise of platform work and the gig economy in the economies of developed countries has spurred new inter est in the subject. Similarly, the uneven effects of the pandemic and its aftermath have drawn unprecedented attention to the resultant economic and social crisis, which has disproportionately affected workers in the informal economy.2 Using the most internationally comparable definition of the informal economy as comprising all workers without legal or social protection through their employment,3 the recent pandemic and continuing economic crisis has left the bulk of the global workforce without a safety net. Such a “moment” naturally raises questions about the structure of employment, the role and reach of social protection programmes and the policy options available in countries where informal employment is the norm.
- Format
- 2 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Labour Review, Rogan, M., 2024. A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy, by Colin C. Williams. International Labour Review, 163(2), International Labour Review volume 163 number 2 1 2 2024
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the International Labour Review Statement (https://www.ilo.org/international-labour-review)
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Rogan, Michael (Assoc Prof)
RU Department of Economics and Economic History
SDG 08. Decent Work and Economic Growth
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