Cash-In-Hand Work: The Underground Sector and the Hidden Economy of Favours

by Colin C. Williams

Uncovering how cash-in-hand economies are composed of not only the underground sector (work akin to formal employment conducted for profit-motivated purposes), but also a hidden economy of favours more akin to mutual aid, this book displays the need to transcend conventional market-oriented readings of cash-in-hand work and radically rethink whether seeking its eradication through tougher regulations is always appropriate. It argues for a variegated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349515574
• ISBN13: 9781349515578
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"