#informality — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/africa/203250/ Angola’s Second Social Protection Statistics Bulletin: A Step Toward Evidence-Based Policy – News and Statistics #ACTIONPortugal #angola #ESSAFEAngola #EuropeanUnion #EvidenceBasedPolicy #GITEPS #ILO #informality #Luanda #MAPTSS #Portugal #SDG13 #SecondEdition #SocialProtection #SocialProtectionStatisticsBulletin #YouthUnemployment

This year’s conference revealed both how far the solidarity economy has come—and how far it has to go.
#solidarityeconomy
#inequality #decolonization #informality

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/whose-solidarity-race-colonialism-economy-and-the-global-south/

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.

Labor-atories of Digital EconomiesLatin America as a Site of Struggles and Experimentation

Rafael Grohmann

"This article argues that digital labor developments and struggles are laboratories of digital economies, with a special focus on Latin America. This means that, on the one hand, capital is experimenting with and updating forms of control and exploitation through the long trajectory of informality and de-pendency and, on the other hand, workers are trying and experimenting with forms of organizing and collectivities, also updating Latin America’s rich histories of organizing, solidarity economies, and community technologies. The emphasis on “labor” implies that these laboratories are products of class struggles and capital – labor relationships. The paper unpacks the argument with four short insights from ongoing research, addressing 1) Latin America as more than a research site, 2) the updating of informality in the Latin American artificial intelligence context, 3) the global implications of data work, artifi-cial intelligence value chains, and the cultural sector, and 4) digital solidarity economies as a Latin American response to the current digital labor scenario, including digital sovereignty and autonomy."

https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/article/view/5_1_6/5_1_6

#LatinAmerica #DigitalEconomy #DigitalLabor #AI #Informality #Digital Sovereignty

#introduction

I'm a #socialprotection specialist working for Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), a global network dedicated to improving the lives of the working poor in the informal economy through research, organizing and advocacy.

I'm interested in all aspects of #socialpolicy, #labourmarkets #taxes, #socialsecurity and #cashtransfers, in particular how to expand coverage in contexts of #informality

A podcast on my current focus👇
https://soundcloud.com/informaleconomypodcastsp/26-challenging-global-social-protection-orthodoxies

Hi, my #introduction #firstpost at Mastodon. I’m Ignacio, anthropologist working for the University of Iceland in a project on mobilities and racism in Europe. Doing ethnographic fieldwork in the Canary Islands about the migration route from west Africa to #Spain & EU.
My interests are (1) #migration, #transnationalism & #mobilities; (2) #humanitarianism & #development; (3) #informality & #resistance.
Looking forward to find people & broad debates of #anthropology #ethnography #socialsciences

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.

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.

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.

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.

#introduction

I'm a #socialprotection specialist working for Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), a global network dedicated to improving the lives of the working poor in the informal economy through research, organizing and advocacy.

I'm interested in all aspects of #socialpolicy, #labourmarkets #taxes, #socialsecurity and #cashtransfers, in particular how to expand coverage in contexts of #informality

A podcast on my current focus👇
https://soundcloud.com/informaleconomypodcastsp/26-challenging-global-social-protection-orthodoxies