Ilona Steiler

Processes of Economic Informalization

Reconfigurations of Law, Labour, and the State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grounded on an analysis of informalized labour in the urban economy of Dar es Salaam, Processes of Economic Informalization explores the conceptual politics involved in the political construction of the informal economy - diverse economic activities that are not regulated or protected by the state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781032277929
• ISBN-10: 1032277920
• Artikelnr.: 72876965

Autorenporträt

Ilona Steiler is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) at Tampere University, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Contested Concept at Work 2. 'Legitimate Lawlessness': Legal and
Political Constructions of Informality 3. 'At the Fringes of the Law':
Labour Relations and Intersectional (In)visibility 4. Divisions of Labour:
Class, Workers' Power, and Strategies of Struggle 5. Setting Work to
Rights: Legal Subjects, Rights, and Responsibilities 6. The Art of 'Eating
With the Blind': the Neoliberal State and Informalized Labour 7. Concluding
thoughts References Index