A critical analysis of vulnerability in informal sector employment in India: Protective mechanisms and adequacy of protection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghazala Ali Khan
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Protective Mechanisms ◽  
Informal Sector Employment

INFORMALITY, VULNERABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 199-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIBYENDU MAITI ◽  
ARUP MITRA
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Capital Formation ◽  
Poor Growth ◽  
Development Expenditure ◽  
The Government ◽  
Informal Sector Employment

This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment that can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors explaining the inter-state variations in this index include the industrial-informal sector wage gap, revenue expenditure and development expenditure incurred by the government. Increased development expenditure brings a decline in distress-led informalization because education, health and infrastructure facilities tend to enhance the employability of an individual. However, education as such does not reduce the residual absorption in the informal sector unless there is improvement in quality. The paper also notes an increase in inequality with an increase in distress-led informalization. Adoption of labor intensive technology in the organized or formal industrial sector is indeed crucial for pro-poor growth. The other policy implication is in terms of enhanced investment in the areas of human capital formation and overall development of the region.

scholarly journals Do direito protetivo do trabalho ao direito do trabalho de exceção: o caso do trabalho intermitente.

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-61
Author(s):  
João Gabriel Pimentel Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Labor Reform ◽  
Protective Mechanisms ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
Work Contract ◽  
Intermittent Work

RESUMO:O presente artigo trata do contrato de trabalho intermitente, regulado pela recente Lei da Reforma Trabalhista no Brasil. A partir das justificativas apresentadas para as modificações legislativas atinentes à matéria, busca-se confrontar os propósitos declarados da lei com as dimensões concretas de sua aplicação, analisando-se a matéria a partir da compreensão do direito do trabalho como elemento protetivo do sujeito trabalhador. Constituída em torno de um ideário com viés liberalizante da economia, o novo regramento do trabalho intermitente revela-se uma expressão de um verdadeiro direito do trabalho de exceção, por meio do qual mecanismos originariamente protetivos ao trabalhador – tais como a própria figura de um contrato de trabalho juridicamente regulado – passam a se constituir como mera expressão de chancela da sua exploração. O artigo passará por uma exposição teórica e conceitual da tese do direito do trabalho de exceção. Em seguida, será abordado o regime jurídico adotado para o contrato de trabalho intermitente no Brasil, para então se propor uma análise crítica da legislação e seus efeitos sobre a subjetividade da classe trabalhadora. ABSTRACT:This paper offers an approach on the intermittent work, ruled by the recent Labor Reform Act in Brazil. By confronting the justification of the legal changes concerning this topic, I try to analyze the declared purposes of the new law under the paradigm of the protective conception of work regulation. The new rules of intermittent work were conceived as an expression of a liberal approach of economics and reveal themselves as a remark of an exceptional Labor Law, by means of which originally protective mechanisms – as the regulated work contract – become a mere expression of the reinforcement of exploitation. The paper begins by theoretically explaining the thesis of exceptional Labor Law. Then, I will expose the legal regime of intermittent contracts in Brazil and propose a critical analysis of the fresh law and its effects on working class subjectivity. 

Examining car guarding as a livelihood in the informal sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 525-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Foster ◽  
Mihalis Chasomeris
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
High Risk ◽  
South African ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Verbal Abuse ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Unemployed Person ◽  
Informal Sector Employment

Car guarding is a distinctly South African informal sector employment activity. A car guard offers to guard vehicles in a public or private parking area for a donation. Car guarding enables an unemployed person to earn some income. The purpose of this study is to examine car guarding as a livelihood in the informal sector. This study interviews 30 car guards at six different locations in Durban, South Africa. It examines their demographic characteristics, income, education and skills, risks and challenges faced, and the opinion of car guards regarding their livelihood. The average car guard worked six days per week and an average of nine hours per day. The average income per hour ranged from ZAR4.64 to ZAR30. Average daily incomes ranged from ZAR50 to ZAR350. Car guarding is a high risk activity that includes health risks, and risks of verbal abuse and violence.

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