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

by Colin 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 favors 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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403921725
• ISBN13: 9781403921727
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"