Workers and the Global Informal Economy

Supriya Routh is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada. Vando Borghi is associate professor at the School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.

• Introduction: The Idea of Form, Informality, and Aspirations of Workers Supriya Routh & Vando Borghi Part I: Neo-liberalism, State, and Regulation in formulating Informality 1. Tackling the informal economy: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal de-regulatory perspective Colin C Williams and Alvaro Martinez 2. Informal Economy and Neoliberal State Zoran Slavnic 3. Reforms, individualization, and informal employment in urban China Sandra Constantin Part II: Law in Formalising Informal Workers 4. The ILO and the informal economy: tackling the concept from a legal perspective Claire La Hovary 5. Framing Informality in a Labour Court Roberto Fragale 6. Inequalities of social security towards informal employment in China Aiqing Zheng 7. Informal Workers and Consumocratic Law Martin Dumas Part III: Informal Workers and their Multidimensional Interactions 8. Informal Employment and Absence of Job Security: Where Social Inequality Begins, and Where it Leads. Employment and Policies in Argentina, 2003-2014 Claudia Danani & Javier Lindenboim 9. Informal employment: Social Space and Capacities of Actors in Russia Petr Bizyukov 10. Informal work and socioeconomic transformations in Africa: the case of Cameroon Alioum Idrissou 11. Informal Workers’ Organising Strategies in India and Argentina Supriya Routh & Marisa Fassi 12. Workers & the Global Informal Economy: Issues and Perspectives Vando Borghi