This book challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities, offering a radical reconceptualisation of their extent, growth, location and nature as well as evaluating the contrasting policy options.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Examining Informal Employment; Chapter 2 Methods of Researching Informal Employment; Chapter 3 Theorising Informal Employment; Part 2 Socio-Spatial Divisions in Informal Employment; Chapter 4 Employment Status and Informal Employment; Chapter 5 Gender and Informal Employment; Chapter 6 Ethnicity, Immigration and Informal Employment; Chapter 7 Spatial Divisions in Informal Employment; Chapter 8 Informal Employment in Developing Nations; Part 3 What is to be Done About Informal Employment?; Chapter 9 Regulating Informal Employment; Chapter 10 Deregulating Formal Employment; Chapter 11 Informal Employment and the New Economics; Chapter 12 Conclusions: Re-Placing Informal Employment in the Advanced Economies;