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Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,112
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Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South (Hardcover): Laura Alfers, Martha Chen, Sophie Plagerson

Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South (Hardcover)

Laura Alfers, Martha Chen, Sophie Plagerson

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Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust. Bridging social contract theories, both mainstream and critical, and the experiences of informal workers - self-employed, wage employed and sub-contracted - this book sheds light on how many existing social contract models stigmatize informal workers and do not offer legal or social protection. Instead of ideologically driven 'top-down' calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for 'bottom-up' initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy. With a wealth of cross-national evidence, as well as promising case studies, this timely and thought-provoking book will prove vital for scholars and researchers of informal workers and of state-capital-labour relations; and for policy makers negotiating new social contracts.

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Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2022
Editors: Laura Alfers • Martha Chen • Sophie Plagerson
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-83910-805-1
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Office & workplace > Working patterns & practices > General
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LSN: 1-83910-805-3
Barcode: 9781839108051

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