United States of America

Informal and Nonstsandard Employment in the United States

Abstract: The informal economy, meaning employment and production that operate outside the regulatory and tax systems, tends to be overlooked...

Going Nowhere Fast: Limited Occupational Mobility in the Fast Food Industry

Front-line jobs in the fast food industry—including cooks, cashiers, delivery workers, and other non-managerial positions—rank among the...

Temporary Help Workers in the U.S. Labor Market

Summary: The number of jobs in the temporary help services industry reached an all-time high of 2.9 million in May 2015, accounting for 2.4...

The Low-Wage Recovery and Growing Inequality

NELP Summary: This report updates NELP’s previous analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the Great Recession. More information...

Contingent Workforce: Size, Characteristics, Earnings and Benefits

The Inequality of Declining Wages During the Recovery

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The unexpected power of informal workers in the public square: A comparison of Mexican and U.S. organizing models

Abstract: Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face...

Unregulated work in the global city: Employment and labor violations in New York City

Sociological Inquiry

Abstract: Most research on the informal economy concentrates on how the informal economy operates at the international and regional levels...

‘An area that governs itself ’: Informality, uncertainty and the management of street vending in New York CityPlanning Theory

Laws governing street vending in New York City are confusing, convoluted, at times contradictory and difficult to enforce with any sort of...