Beyond Negative Depictions of Informal Employment: Some Lessons from Moscow
Informal employment is conventionally viewed as residual, marginal and sweatshop-like work that impairs urban economic development and social cohesion. Reporting data from 313 interviews conducted with Moscow households during 2005/06, this negative reading is found to apply to just one segment of the informal labour market in this post-socialist city— namely, informal waged employment. Examining the multiple types of informal employment conducted on an own-account basis, more positive impacts emerge of this sphere as the key seedbed for enterprise development and principal mechanism for delivering community self-help. The outcome is a call for a finer-grained understanding and more nuanced policy approach towards informal employment that recognises its plurality of forms and their varying consequences for economic development and social cohesion.
Year of publication: |
2007
|
---|---|
Authors: | Williams, Colin C. ; Round, John |
Published in: |
Urban Studies. - Urban Studies Journal Limited. - Vol. 44.2007, 12, p. 2321-2338
|
Publisher: |
Urban Studies Journal Limited |
Saved in:
Online Resource
Saved in favorites
Similar items by person
-
Workplace crime and the informal economy in Ukraine: Employee and employer perspectives
Rodgers, Peter, (2008)
-
Everyday tactics and spaces of power: the role of informal economies in post-Soviet Ukraine
Round, John, (2008)
-
Evaluating the motives of informal entrepreneurs: some lessons from Ukraine
Williams, Colin C., (2009)
- More ...