- Title
- Towards a more inclusive social protection: informal workers and the struggle for a new social contract
- Creator
- Alfers, Laura C, Moussié, Rachel
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/478239
- Identifier
- vital:78167
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781839108068
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108068.00012
- Description
- The provision of social protection by the state in the form of social assistance, insurance and services is widely considered to be a key component of a social-justice-oriented social contract–the “implicit social agreement” which establishes the “guiding principles in building economic, social and political institutions”(Behrendt et al. 2019, Hickey 2011). The COVID-19 crisis revealed the extent to which informal workers remain unprotected by these provisions. Their exclusion significantly contributed to the severity of the economic crisis which accompanied the health crisis. At the same time the pandemic has also opened up the political space to (re) negotiate a social contract where protections hold a more central position. This chapter focuses on pre-COVID-19 attempts by organizations of informal workers to engage in dialogue and advocacy to shape such a social contract by transforming spaces for negotiation or creating new spaces for interactions with government at international, national and municipal levels. In doing so it emphasizes the idea of the social contract as less of a static entity than a shifting process of challenge and negotiation (Hickey 2011). The social contract, understood as a process, brings to the fore the question of power–who holds the power to shape the terms of engagement in such processes, who is considered a social actor worthy of having a seat at the table, to what extent do different actors hold the expertise and knowledge necessary to make change.
- Format
- 19 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- ElgarOnline
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Alfers, L. and Moussié, R., 2022. Towards a more inclusive social protection: informal workers and the struggle for a new social contract. In Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South (pp. 106-125). Edward Elgar Publishing
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