The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future [Hardcover]

INTRODUCTION  Martha Chen and Fran?oise Carr?  PART 1  THE INFORMAL ECONOMY REVISITED  1. Informality: The Bane of the Labouring Poor under Globalized Capitalism  Jan Breman  2. Indias 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 WlEGOs Contribution  Joann Vanek  4. Informal Employment in Developed Countries: Relevance and Statistical Measurement  Fran?oise Carr?  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 beyl0