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Informal Workers and the State: The Politics of Connection and Disconnection During a Global Pandemic

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dc.creator Gallien, Max
dc.creator van den Boogaard, Vanessa
dc.date 2021-12-02T10:08:46Z
dc.date 2021-12-02T10:08:46Z
dc.date 2021-12-02
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:50:32Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:50:32Z
dc.identifier Gallien, M. and van den Boogaard, V. (2021) Informal Workers and the State: The Politics of Connection and Disconnection During a Global Pandemic, IDS Working Paper 558, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.066
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16979
dc.identifier 10.19088/IDS.2021.066
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198782
dc.description In low- and middle-income countries, informal workers are particularly vulnerable to the health and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and often neglected by policy responses. At the same time, the crisis is rapidly changing the ways that states engage with informal workers. We argue that the relationships between informal workers and states – and the politics of creating and accessing these linkages – are a critical and frequently overlooked part of the politics of the pandemic. Both pre-existing structural disconnection from the state—embodied, for example, through limited access to health infrastructure—and state attempts to build new connections, including through cash transfer programmes for informal workers, have a profound impact on the effectiveness and reach of state crisis responses. Without considering the varied and dynamic nature of the linkages between states and informal workers we cannot understand the heterogeneous health and economic impacts of the pandemic, state capacity to respond to the crisis, or institutional change in the context of crisis.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Institute of Development Studies
dc.relation IDS Working Paper;558
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.rights Institute of Development Studies
dc.subject Governance
dc.subject Politics and Power
dc.subject Work and Labour
dc.title Informal Workers and the State: The Politics of Connection and Disconnection During a Global Pandemic
dc.type IDS Working Paper


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