Informal Employment in Advanced Economies: Implications for Work and Welfare

by Colin Williams and Jan Windebank

Re-Placing Informal Employment challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities, and offers a radical reassesment of their extent, growth, location and nature.
The book uses case studies from the UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the US and Canada to challenge:
* the popular belief that informal employment is growing throughout the advanced economies
* the myth that this work is undertaken mostly by marginalized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415169593
• ISBN13: 9780415169592
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"