The Urban Informal Economy Revisited
Issue Editors : Ray Bromley and Tamar Diana Wilson
The distinction between “formal” and “informal” jobs and
enterprises was first introduced in the 1970s and has been very widely used ever
since. The underlying assumption was
that the formal economy would gradually expand and dominate, and the informal
economy would gradually disappear. The
reality, however, associated with neoliberal economic development and growing
socio-economic inequality, is that the informal economy has persisted and
sometimes grown, and that job security and benefits in the formal economy have
often diminished. This theme issue
focuses on the informal economy under neoliberalism, with case studies of some
of the most significant and persistent occupations. Several of the articles
focus on the process of the “formalization” of informal workers, a goal
expressed by the International Labour Organization, but often fraught with
difficulties.
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