#informaleconomy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #informaleconomy, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/?p=208698 Uganda Suspends Trade Order Crackdown After Public Outcry, Govt Promises Consultative Approach #Governance #InformalEconomy #KCCA #livelihoods #Parliament #StreetVendors #TradeOrder #Uganda #UrbanPolicy
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"Things are only going to get worse: The rapid adoption of AI could add between 1.2 million to 5 million metric tons of e-waste in total by 2030, according to a 2024 study published in Nature Computational Science. The high-performance hardware required for AI, such as GPUs and specialized servers, is advancing quickly. The rapid turnover for computing devices — about two to five years — leads to older parts becoming obsolete and being discarded quickly, too.
The Basel Convention, an international treaty that prohibits the illegal transfer of hazardous waste from developed to developing countries, has been in place since the 1990s but implementation is lacking. In 2018, when China’s National Sword policy banned the import of most foreign waste, the U.S. shifted these exports to other Asian and African nations. Most of these countries lack the public awareness and robust regulations to protect themselves from the ill effects on the environment, labor, and health.
In India, devices are far more likely to be repaired, resold, or rebuilt in the vast informal economy than dismantled by certified recyclers. These informal workers, like scrap dealers and small repair shops, prioritize quick value extraction, often using unsafe methods like open burning, acid baths, or manual dismantling."
https://restofworld.org/2026/global-ewaste-crisis/
#eWaste #AI #India #PlannedObsolescence #InformalEconomy #Recycling
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Another (small) publication alert! I've written a literature review on several (very good) books about informal transport labour in Africa, reflecting a little bit on what "informality" means in the informal economy, especially regarding labour.
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How is the Digital Transformation Affecting Informal Businesses in the Global South? A 16-Countries Rapid Survey
"The informal sector is by far the world’s largest employer. [...]The United Nations Development Program has detected signals that informal businesses are embracing digital tools across the Global South. This is likely to have far-reaching implications in contexts where informal businesses account for a large part of economic activity."
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/37092/ Switzerland, ILO, Moldova Launch $3.8M Initiative to Boost Jobs, Formalisation, and SME Productivity #EmploymentPolicy #EUIntegration #ILO #InformalEconomy #LabourMarketReform #Moldova #Productivity #SMEs #SocialDialogue #Switzerland
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IMF holds back $1 billion loan as Pakistan fails to meet tax target
IMF holds back $1 billion loan as Pakistan fails to meet tax targetIANS Negotiations between Pakistan and the…
#Economy #$1billionloan #budgetcredibility #circulardebt #energysector #Fiscalreform #Governance #IMF #informaleconomy #InternationalMonetaryFund #pakistan #PakistanSteelMills #PIA #publicsectorenterprises #revenuetargets #subsidies #taxshortfall #taxtoGDPratio
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/123474/ ILO Launches Daycare Centre for Domestic Workers in Addis Ababa #Childcare #DecentWork #DomesticWorkers #Ethiopia #GenderEquality #ILO #InformalEconomy #Women’sEmployment
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/97796/ Health Insurance Penetration Lags Amid Cost Pressures #AIInInsurance #EmployerSponsoredHealthPlans #Ethiopia #Health #HealthcareFinancing #InformalEconomy #insurance #insurtech #MajorMedicalInsurance #MedicalInflation #Mexico #PredictiveInsurance #PublicHealth #RiskManagement #SocialProtection #UniversalHealthCoverage
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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work
Annie McClanahan
(Zone Books)
"Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we confront both the enormity and the intimacy of the contemporary service sector.Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
If service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism, Beneath the Wage reveals it as crucial to understanding how exploitation functions today. Uncovering a history that runs from eighteenth-century servants to present-day gig workers, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.
Assembling a diverse set of sources for understanding and reimagining service work—from reality television and conceptual poetry to novels and workers’ own descriptions of what they do—McClanahan explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor: superexploited tipwork, deskilled clerical microwork, and informalized gigwork. She shows how work done “beneath the wage” depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity."
https://www.zonebooks.org/books/293-beneath-the-wage-tips-tasks-and-gigs-in-the-age-of-service-work
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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work
Annie McClanahan
(Zone Books)
"Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we confront both the enormity and the intimacy of the contemporary service sector.Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
If service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism, Beneath the Wage reveals it as crucial to understanding how exploitation functions today. Uncovering a history that runs from eighteenth-century servants to present-day gig workers, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.
Assembling a diverse set of sources for understanding and reimagining service work—from reality television and conceptual poetry to novels and workers’ own descriptions of what they do—McClanahan explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor: superexploited tipwork, deskilled clerical microwork, and informalized gigwork. She shows how work done “beneath the wage” depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity."
https://www.zonebooks.org/books/293-beneath-the-wage-tips-tasks-and-gigs-in-the-age-of-service-work
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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work
Annie McClanahan
(Zone Books)
"Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we confront both the enormity and the intimacy of the contemporary service sector.Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
If service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism, Beneath the Wage reveals it as crucial to understanding how exploitation functions today. Uncovering a history that runs from eighteenth-century servants to present-day gig workers, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.
Assembling a diverse set of sources for understanding and reimagining service work—from reality television and conceptual poetry to novels and workers’ own descriptions of what they do—McClanahan explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor: superexploited tipwork, deskilled clerical microwork, and informalized gigwork. She shows how work done “beneath the wage” depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity."
https://www.zonebooks.org/books/293-beneath-the-wage-tips-tasks-and-gigs-in-the-age-of-service-work
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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work
Annie McClanahan
(Zone Books)
"Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we confront both the enormity and the intimacy of the contemporary service sector.Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
If service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism, Beneath the Wage reveals it as crucial to understanding how exploitation functions today. Uncovering a history that runs from eighteenth-century servants to present-day gig workers, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.
Assembling a diverse set of sources for understanding and reimagining service work—from reality television and conceptual poetry to novels and workers’ own descriptions of what they do—McClanahan explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor: superexploited tipwork, deskilled clerical microwork, and informalized gigwork. She shows how work done “beneath the wage” depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity."
https://www.zonebooks.org/books/293-beneath-the-wage-tips-tasks-and-gigs-in-the-age-of-service-work
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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work
Annie McClanahan
(Zone Books)
"Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we confront both the enormity and the intimacy of the contemporary service sector.Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
If service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism, Beneath the Wage reveals it as crucial to understanding how exploitation functions today. Uncovering a history that runs from eighteenth-century servants to present-day gig workers, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.
Assembling a diverse set of sources for understanding and reimagining service work—from reality television and conceptual poetry to novels and workers’ own descriptions of what they do—McClanahan explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor: superexploited tipwork, deskilled clerical microwork, and informalized gigwork. She shows how work done “beneath the wage” depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity."
https://www.zonebooks.org/books/293-beneath-the-wage-tips-tasks-and-gigs-in-the-age-of-service-work
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Technology Times (Nigeria): Moniepoint unveils ‘M’, AI chatbot to offer insights into Nigeria’s informal economy. “Moniepoint has unveiled M, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot designed to provide real-time data and insights on Nigeria’s informal economy, offering students, stakeholders, and researchers a new digital gateway to information beyond traditional reports.”
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Tried (again) to make sense of #informality today and how and why I still want to use terms like #informaleconomy and #informaltransport. Problem is the distinction formal/informal is largely predicated on position a short and geographically limited form of capitalist regulation, #fordism, as norm. Also, it tapes a little over the many connections and interdependencies between formal and informal economies. But I still think, while recognising this problem, it’s important to keep the distinction, rather using processes of formalisation and informalisation as indicative of strategies by different actors - workers, capitalists, state institutions - which are historically contingent and dynamic.
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Tried (again) to make sense of #informality today and how and why I still want to use terms like #informaleconomy and #informaltransport. Problem is the distinction formal/informal is largely predicated on position a short and geographically limited form of capitalist regulation, #fordism, as norm. Also, it tapes a little over the many connections and interdependencies between formal and informal economies. But I still think, while recognising this problem, it’s important to keep the distinction, rather using processes of formalisation and informalisation as indicative of strategies by different actors - workers, capitalists, state institutions - which are historically contingent and dynamic.
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Tried (again) to make sense of #informality today and how and why I still want to use terms like #informaleconomy and #informaltransport. Problem is the distinction formal/informal is largely predicated on position a short and geographically limited form of capitalist regulation, #fordism, as norm. Also, it tapes a little over the many connections and interdependencies between formal and informal economies. But I still think, while recognising this problem, it’s important to keep the distinction, rather using processes of formalisation and informalisation as indicative of strategies by different actors - workers, capitalists, state institutions - which are historically contingent and dynamic.
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Tried (again) to make sense of #informality today and how and why I still want to use terms like #informaleconomy and #informaltransport. Problem is the distinction formal/informal is largely predicated on position a short and geographically limited form of capitalist regulation, #fordism, as norm. Also, it tapes a little over the many connections and interdependencies between formal and informal economies. But I still think, while recognising this problem, it’s important to keep the distinction, rather using processes of formalisation and informalisation as indicative of strategies by different actors - workers, capitalists, state institutions - which are historically contingent and dynamic.
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Tried (again) to make sense of #informality today and how and why I still want to use terms like #informaleconomy and #informaltransport. Problem is the distinction formal/informal is largely predicated on position a short and geographically limited form of capitalist regulation, #fordism, as norm. Also, it tapes a little over the many connections and interdependencies between formal and informal economies. But I still think, while recognising this problem, it’s important to keep the distinction, rather using processes of formalisation and informalisation as indicative of strategies by different actors - workers, capitalists, state institutions - which are historically contingent and dynamic.
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Jars are for pickles and jams, but we are producing something even spicier and sweeter.
Jar Collective is an antidote to digital overstimulation.
https://dhooop.metalabel.com/jar_collective_001
#InformalEconomy #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #Entrepreneurship #SmallBusiness #CreativeEconomy #SecondHand #SocialImpact
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Seed saving in Atlantic Canada: Sustainable food through sharing and education
Norma Jean Worden-Rogers
Kathleen Glasgow
Irena Knezevic
Stephanie Hughes#Seeds #SeedSaving #SeedConservation #SeedSecurity #AtlanticCanada #SustainableFoodSystems #SocialEconomy #InformalEconomy
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeathttps://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/352
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Delphine Mercier @cnrs :
"The #globalisation of the #economy cannot be reduced to #offshoring, it also translates into the coexistence of different #legal regimes within the same territory. …[the] contribution to the local economy remain extremely low [and there is] the development of a parallel and #informalEconomy around #storage spaces. It is just one small step from a #freeZone to a grey area."
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I reviewed Daniel Jordan Smiths fascinating and wide-ranging account of the #informaleconomy in #Nigeria, drawing on over 30 years of fieldwork and his own experience living in a mid-sized Nigerian city:
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[This is going to end badly] Tunisia looking to tax the #InformalEconomy, under the benevolent eye of the #IMF: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/tunisia-taxing-informal-economy-finances-boost-not-why
En français: https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/opinionfr/tunisie-taxer-economie-informelle-finances-crise-fmi-emprunt
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The informal economy is the world's largest employer: about 60% of jobs globally are estimated to be informal. Here's what's new: informal businesses all across the Global South are going digital. Their digital presence functions as a sort of official address. It could be used to deliver public services, such as support for struggling small businesses in a recession. Results of a survey by @UNDPAccLabs in 16 countries: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7896327
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But the recycling thing… it’s so tangible seeing what I throw away each week. I really don’t love it. And I love it even less for the people around me who don’t see any other way. I have lots of ideas for that, but they take time and energy, and don’t make cash money. And I’ve more or less set “stabilise my personal finances” as my goal for the year. I don’t know if I have time to do both, much as I love living in the #InformalEconomy of barter and mutual aid and whatnot.
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"Swap It on WhatsApp: The Moral Economy of Informal Online Exchange Networks in Contemporary Cuba" - Steffen Köhn and Nestor Siré
https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12583
#anthropology #AIArt #midjourney #academia @anthropology #barter #Cuba #InformalEconomy #MoralEconomies #SocialMedia #whatsapp
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An #introduction!
Hi, I'm Kate! I'm a writer in #Ottawa. I'm a parent and I have a black cat named Minerva.
My latest novel is The Embroidered Book.
I'm writing an #AssassinsCreed trilogy. You can find my #InteractiveFiction through #ChoiceOfGames. Plus novellas, stories, some videogame writing.I used to be a journalist and my undergrad was in #polisci. I teach journalism, and I do contract work related to the #InformalEconomy.
#introductions #sfwa #codex #fantasy #sff #HistoricalFiction
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Keynesianism is very efficient at producing #uselessJobs.
People in uselessJobs are a bigger drain on #society than the #unemployed, who often add to the #informalEconomy or #volunteer for a fraction of the income of the person undertaking the uselessJob.
The person performing the uselessJob is often paid very well to enable them to travel vast dististances and engage in activities to help them manage the pain of knowing they don't have a real job.
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The size of informal economy estimated through Diophantine Equations defines a lower boundary because it is a minimal solution of the equation, unlike the other methods which state an average score.
#DonatienMalala; #DRCongo, #DiophantineEquations; #NumberTheory; #Congruence; #InformalEconomy; #NonObservedEconomy