The book Labor Informality in Latin America: A Current Debate? is the result of a process of debate and reflection established within the scope of the LATWORK Project "Developing Research and innovation capacities of Latin-American HEI for the analysis of informal labor market" co-financed by the ERASMUS + Program of the European Union.
The LATWORK Project began in January 2019 and involves 9 (nine) Latin American universities (Unicamp, UFPB and UFCG, Brazil; University of Buenos Aires, National University of Rosario and National University of Litoral, Argentina; Viña del Mar University, Universidad San Sebastián and Universidad de Magallanes, Chile) and 3 (three) European ones (University of Coimbra, Portugal; University of Alicante, Spain; University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
The main purpose of this book is to present a historical and current recovery of the various theoretical approaches and empirical research on the subject of informality and job insecurity in Latin America, taking them as a prominent field of debate in labor studies and reflecting on the validity that the approaches referenced in this topic present at present, especially in the face of the reconfigurations of the world of work caused by productive restructuring, globalization and the primacy of neoliberal policies. How current is the approach in Latin America? This book aims to be a contribution on the way to answering this question.
So, the book presents a first set of reflections and, at the same time, an invitation to debate and exchange. For this reason, in addition to the chapters written within the framework of the REDLATT Working Groups, we have incorporated significant contributions from researchers established on the subject in the region. The book is divided into two parts. The first, entitled «The debate on informality continues: Updated approaches», is made up of 8 (eight) chapters, the result of the generous contributions of researchers and invited researchers. The second, called "The debate on informality by thematic axes", presents the 7 (chapters) results of the debates and elaborations of 7 (seven) REDLATT Working Groups.
