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Drawing inspiration from a burgeoning corpus of scholars who have begun to question

the narrative of impending market hegemony, this paper seeks to further advance this

emergent ‘diverse economies’ literature by constructing a conceptual framework for

representing the multiple labour practices in economies. Transcending the simplistic

market/non-market dichotomy, this conceptualises multiple kinds of labour existing along

a spectrum from market-oriented to non-market oriented practices, which is cross-cut by

another spectrum ranging from wholly monetised to wholly non-monetised practices. The

resultant portrayal of a plurality of labour practices that seamlessly merge into each other

is then applied to understanding the types …

For much of the previous century, the informal sector was largely represented as a residue of a

previous mode of production confined to marginal populations and gradually disappearing due to

the inevitable and natural shift towards the formal economy across the globe. Over the past quarter

of a century, however, articles published in Work, Employment and Society have been at the forefront

of re-reading the informal sector. This article reveals how this body of literature has shown informal

economic activities to be a persistent and ubiquitous feature of the economic landscape, mapped

the complex and variable dynamics of formal and …

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