This special issue examines the interaction of gender with informal
work, processes of informalisation and experiences of informality
as a defining feature of work under contemporary capitalism. The
articles interrogate the interactions between the experiential, discursive
and structural dimensions of informality as they emerge in
relation to the social construction of gender relations. These analyses
present a comprehensive survey of the ‘continuum of practices’
which constitute informality, and draws attention to the
urgency of understanding the ways in which codified and social
practices normalise, formalise and conceal the gendered dimensions
of informality at work.
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Journal
LABOUR & INDUSTRY-A JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF WORK