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Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South

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Illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust, Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations characterised by recognition, responsiveness and reciprocity.

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Alfers, Laura, Alter Chen, Martha, and Plagerson, Sophie (Eds.). Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. , , . Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108068Alfers, L., Alter Chen, M., and Plagerson, S (Eds.). (2022). Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. , , . https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108068Alfers, Laura, Alter Chen, Martha, and Plagerson, Sophie, editors. "Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South." Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, .Alfers Laura, Alter Chen Martha, and Plagerson Sophie, eds. "Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South." (2022). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108068Alfers, L, Alter Chen, M, and Plagerson, S (eds.) 2022, 'Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South', , , . https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108068Laura Alfers, Martha Alter Chen, and Sophie Plagerson (eds), 'Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South' (2022). Alfers L., Alter Chen M., and Plagerson S, editors. Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. . 2022. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108068Alfers, Laura, Alter Chen, Martha, and Plagerson, Sophie (Eds.). Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. . 2022. , . https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108068

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