Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Challenge for Trade Unions
Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Challenge for Trade Unions
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非正规经济中的组织:工会面临的挑战
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2011
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Dave Spooner
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Christina L. Bonner;Dave Spooner
Over the past two decades or so trade unions have become increasingly aware of, and challenged by, the growth, persistence, and reach of informal employment across the globe. The idea that informal work is a transitory phenomenon and will decline and even disappear over time through formalization has largely been dispelled (Chen et al. 2005: 88). Informal or precarious employment is extensive and growing in many developing countries, and is on the rise in various guises in industrialized countries.1 At the same time, union membership has declined in many countries as the number of formal, permanent, full-time jobs has shrunk. Pressure from unions in developing countries already organizing informal workers, and interventions by the ilo – particularly the Resolution Concerning Decent Work and the Informal Economy adopted at the International Labour Conference in 20022 – has increased awareness of the