The Urban informal sector : critical perspectives on employment and housing policies /

The Urban Informal Sector is a collection of papers presented at a multi-disciplinary conference on """"The urban informal sector in the Third World, """" organized by the Developing Areas Study Group of the Institute of British Geographers in London on March...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Bromley, R. J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1979.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; THE URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR Critical Perspectives on Employment and Housing Policies; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction
  • The Urban Informal Sector: Why Is It Worth Discussing?; 1. THE FORMAL/INFORMAL TWO-SECTOR MODEL OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; 2. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DEBATES ABOUT THE INFORMAL SECTOR; 3. THE SELECTION OF ARTICLES; NOTES; Chapter 2. Informal Sector or Petty Commodity Production: Dualism or Dependence in Urban Development?; 1. THE ILO COUNTRY MISSIONS; 2. THE ILO CITY STUDIES; 3. THE INFORMAL SECTOR: ITS DIFFERENT CONCEPTUALIZATIONS.
  • 4. AN ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATION: PETTY COMMODITY PRODUCTION5. DUALISM OR DEPENDENCE IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT: SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH; NOTES; Chapter 3. An Exploration into the Nature of Informal-Formal Sector Relationships; 1. THE BENIGN RELATIONSHIP APPROACH; 2. THE SUBORDINATION APPROACH; 3. A THIRD APPROACH; NOTES; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Quasi-Formal Employment Structures and Behaviour in the Unorganized Urban Economy, and the Reverse: Some Evidence from South India; 1. A PROBLEMATICAL DEBATE; 2. PRESENT OBJECTIVES; 3. METHODOLOGICAL NORMS.
  • 4. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING OF THE LABOUR MARKET IN THE ORGANIZED ECONOMY5. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING OF THE LABOUR MARKET IN THE UNORGANIZED ECONOMY; 6. LIMITATIONS AND OVERLAP; 7. CONCLUSION; NOTES; Chapter 5. Causes of Urban Poverty in Brazil; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE RANKING OF CITIES ACCORDING TO LEVELS OF URBAN POVERTY; 3. THE CAUSES OF URBAN POVERTY; 4. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS; Chapter 6. Capitalist and Petty Commodity Production in Nigeria: A Note; Chapter 7. Petty Commodity Housing or Dweller Control? A Critique of John Turner's Views on Housing Policy; 1. INTRODUCTION.
  • 2. TURNER'S CONCEPT OF HOUSING3. HOUSING PRODUCTION
  • AUTONOMY AND HETERONOMY; 4. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS: THE STATE AND THE PLANNER; 5. LAND, PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE LAW; 6. FINANCE, MATERIALS AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR; 7. MINIMUM STANDARDS, PRESCRIPTIVE VERSUS PROSCRIPTIVE LEGISLATION; 8. CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Housing in Three Dimensions : Terms of Reference for the Housing Question Redefined; CENTRALIZE; DECENTRALIZE; NOTES; Chapter 9. Petty Production and Capitalist Production in Dakar: The Crisis of the Self-Employed.
  • 1. 'informality', 'marginality' or something more complex?2. an overview of the senegalese economy; 3. self-employed petty producers: problems of identification and analysis; 4. 'backward-linkage dependency': the example of the medina shoemakers; 5. dissolution-conservation of petty production and the process of transition; 6. domination and subordination: two examples; 7. the impact of government intervention on the mass of petty producers; 8. the impoverishment of petty producers and the generalized process of underdevelopment; notes; references.