This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy. Researchers, practitioners and policy makers will find this book an invaluable guide to the significance of the informal economy.

This research report explores the nature and character of home-based work and the more narrow concept of homework in Ghana. As labour statistics on home-based work and homework are absent, the research draws on interviews with 124 individuals working in agro-processing, arts and crafts, industry...

This report focuses on two categories of home-based workers in Turkey; industrial home-based pieceworkers and IT-enabled remote workers, who are commonly referred to in Turkey as “freelancers”. With an aim of exploring the current patterns and issues of these two categories of home-based...

The great strength of Canada Research Chair Leah Vosko's new book lies in its cogent, well-documented critique. Vosko's notion of standard employment relationships takes distance from those who reject citizenship's potential as a transformative concept; it offers denationalized citizenship as a...

Strukturwandel der Gesundheitswirtschaft und Frauenerwerbsarbeit - dieser Zusammenhang eröffnet häufig Chancen für weibliche Erwerbsarbeit, birgt zugleich jedoch das Risiko neuer "Fallen". Frauenerwerbsarbeit in der Gesundheitswirtschaft stellt sich häufig weder "typisch" noch "normal" dar....