Aaron Benavav - Workshop - Unemployment, Underemployment, and Informality on the World Scale
| Dates: | 29 January 2025 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 12:00 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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This workshop will engage with the complex dynamics of unemployment, underemployment, and informality from a global historical perspective. Starting with Charles Booth’s late 19th-century investigations in London, Benanav traces how informal work and underemployment often overshadowed outright unemployment both in the Global North and South. The workshop will delve into the historical attempts by states and reformers to measure, control, and address diverse forms of employment insufficiency, revealing how these efforts have been marked by political contestation and normative assumptions. Topics include the intertwined nature of formal and informal economies, the limitations of traditional economic measures, and the implications of viewing employment insufficiency as a historically contingent and value-laden construct. This conversation aims to foster a critical understanding of how labour dynamics have evolved globally and to explore alternative frameworks for conceptualizing and addressing employment challenges in contemporary society.
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