Informal Workers and a Political Economy of Lifelong Learning

Seth Brown is Head and Coordinator of UNESCO UNEVOC and Lecturer in the School of Education at RMIT University, Australia. His research contributes to understanding how social and cultural change impacts young people’s health and well-being, and the availability of educational, training and employment pathways.Peter Kelly is Professor of Education in the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia. His research focuses on young people, their education, training and employment pathways, and their health and well-being, at a time of profound planetary crises at the convergence of the sixth mass extinction and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Scott K. Phillips is Director of Kershaw Phillips Consulting. He works with government and community organisations to understand people’s needs, develop policies and programmes, and facilitate research and evaluation. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor with UNESCO UNEVOC at RMIT University, Australia.

• Chapter 1: INFORMAL ECONOMIES AND INFORMAL WORKERS IN GLOBAL CAPITALISM.- Chapter 2: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (LAC).- Chapter 3: THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (MENA).- Chapter 4: SUB SAHARAN AFRICA (SSA).- Chapter 5: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (CEE).- Chapter 6: THE ASIAN-PACIFIC REGION.- Chapter 7: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LIFE LONG LEARNING (LLL) FOR DECENT WORK AND JUST TRANSITIONS?.