Informal labour

Kerry Rittich

Chapter 48 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 581-594 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Informal work is not a common subject of analysis in either Third World or mainstream approaches to international law. Yet informal workers stand at the terminal point of multiple international interventions, from economic development and transformation to human rights, gender equality and poverty alleviation. This chapter begins to surface the place of informal work in the international order, suggesting how informal workers might be imagined as a linchpin of that produces ongoing dilemmas of exploitation and inequality. A brief survey of TWAIL methods and scholarship reveals a range of useful techniques for the analysis of informal work, for example, through attention to the interaction of public and private law and power and plural normative orders. Key sites of interest when it comes to informal work include: law and development; land titling and land reform; human rights; gender equality and social reproduction; and popular social movements and law and revolution.

Keywords: Informality; Labour; Colonialism; Social movements; Legal pluralism; Legal methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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