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Consumer Services and Economic Development
Routledge 1997; US$ 71.95This book evaluates the contributions that consumer services can make to local economic development and revitalisation. It examines a broad range of consumer services and detailed case studies illustrate their role in various contexts. more...
Cash-In-Hand Work
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 110.00Uncovering how cash-in-hand economies are composed of not only the underground sector (work akin to formal employment conducted for profit-motivated purposes), but also a hidden economy of favours more akin to mutual aid, this book displays the need to transcend conventional market-oriented readings of cash-in-hand work and radically rethink whether... more...
Informal Employment in Advanced Economies, Volume 27, Issue 6
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00Informal employment can be defined as ?the paid production and sale of goods and services that are unregistered by, or hidden from, the state for tax, social security and/or labour law purposes but which are legal in all other respects? (Williams and Windebank, 1998: 4). It is now recognised that informal employment is growing in importance as economies... more...
Poverty and the Third Way
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 201.00What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow party political context, this book argues that it is necessary to harness work beyond employment in order to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. The outcome is a thought-provoking new approach towards combating poverty. Poverty and the Third Way uncovers... more...
Informal Employment in Advanced Economies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 75.95Re-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... more...
Community Self-Help
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 110.00This book explores the dynamics of community self help in local neighbourhoods. It shows how widespread it is, and argues that it should be considered as the third major sector of social and economic organization (alongside the state and market). Danny Burns, Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank examine community self-help as a springboard into the... more...
Alternative Economic Spaces
SAGE Publications 2003; US$ 56.00`A hopeful but nonetheless hard-hitting analysis of alternative economic spaces proliferating in the belly of the capitalist beast. In this book Leyshon, Lee and Williams convene fascinating studies of exchange, enterprise, credit and community. They invite us onto a new and promising discursive terrain where we can analyze, criticize and above all... more...
Informal Work in Developed Nations
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 145.00Almost everyone residing in a developed nation knows someone who has engaged in paid work that is licit but not reported to the government (e.g., babysitting, gardening, construction, financial consulting). But while most acknowledge that such work is helpful to the individuals involved, and that informal work may enhance a sense of community, most... more...
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