The Informal Economy Revisited : Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future (Paperback)

List of illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION ? Martha Chen and Francoise Carre PART 1 ? THE INFORMAL ECONOMY REVISITED 1. Informality: The Bane of the Labouring Poor under Globalized Capitalism ? Jan Breman 2. India’s Informal Economy: Past, Present and Future ? Barbara Harriss-White PART 2 ? INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT: ADVANCES IN STATISTICS AND RESEARCH 3. Informal Employment: Advances in Statistics and WlEGO’s Contribution ? Joann Vanek 4. Informal Employment in Developed Countries: Relevance and Statistical Measurement ? Francoise Carre 5. The Measurement of Informal Employment in Mexico ? Rodrigo Negrete 6. WIEGO Research on Informal Employment: Key Methods, Variables and Findings ? Martha Chen PART 3 ? ECONOMICS AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY 7. Assessing Taxation and Informality: Disaggregated Frameworks Matter ? Ravi Kanbur 8. Informality and the Dynamics of the Structure of Employment ? James Heintz 9. Old and New Forms of Informal Employment ? Uma Rani 10. Tax and the Informal Economy: Lessons from South Africa ? Imraan Valodia and David Francis 11. (Re)conceptualizing Poverty and Informal Employment ? Michael Rogan and Paul Cichello PART 4 ? LABOUR LAW AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY 12. Revising Labour Law for Work ? Judy Fudge 13. Domestic Workers and Informality: Challenging Invisibility, Regulating Inclusion ? Adelle Blackett 14. Enforcement of Labour Standards in Developing Countries: Challenges and Solutions ? Michael J. Piore PART 5 - URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN: INCLUDING INFORMAL LIVELIHOODS 15. The Informal Economy in Urban Africa: Challenging Planning Theory and Praxis ? Caroline Skinner and Vanessa Watson 16. Urban Design: Imaginations beyond Architecture ? Rahul Mehrotra 17. Informality, Housing and Work: The View from Indian Cities ? Gautam Bhan PART 6 ? HOMEWORKERS: EXTENDING LABOUR RIGHTS IN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS 18. Regulating Corporations in Global Value Chains to Realize Labour Rights for Homeworkers ? Marlese von Broembsen 19. Extending Labour Standards to Informal Workers at the Base of Global Garment Value Chains: New Institutions in the Labour Market ? Meenu Tewari PART 7 - STREET VENDORS: POLITICS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR INCLUSION 20. Street Vendors and Planning Paradigms ? Amin Y. Kamete 21. Street Vending and the State: Challenging Theory, Changing Research ? Veronica Crossa 22. Street Vendors and Regulations ? Sally Roever PART 8 - WASTE PICKERS: INTEGRATION AND RIGHTS IN PUBLIC WASTE MANAGEMENT 23. Waste Pickers and Their Right to the City: Dispossession and Displacement in 19th Century Paris and Contemporary Montevideo ? Lucia Fernandez 24. Managing Urban Waste as a Common Pool Resource ? Jeremie Cave 25. The Political Work of Waste Picker Integration ? Melanie Samson PART 9 ? SOCIAL POLICY AND INFORMAL WORKERS 26. The Place of Informal Workers in Different Approaches to Social Protection ? Francie Lund 27. Social Protection and Informal Workers: Rethinking the Terms of Inclusion ? Laura Alfers 28. Social Protection for Women Informal Workers: Perspectives from Latin America ? Silke Staab 29. Informal Workers in a Context of Urbanisation and Migration: Reflections from China for Social Policy in Asia ? Sarah Cook 30. Realising Employer Liability for Workers in Informal Employment: Lessons from India ? Kamala Sankaran PART 10 ? INFORMAL WORKERS AND THE STATE 31. Deciphering African Informal Economies ? Kate Meagher 32. Informal Workers and the State in India ? Rina Agarwala 33. Informal Domestic Workers, Informal Construction Workers and the State: What Prospects for Improving Labour Standards? ? Chris Tilly 34. Waste and Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State in Brazil ? Sonia Dias CONCLUSION ? Martha Chen, Francoise Carre and Sally Roever Bibliography