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"Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" by Eleanor Patterson explores the phenomenon of bootlegging in the history of broadcast media. The book challenges the dominant narrative of media companies controlling audience consumption by highlighting how bootleggers created "shadow economies" of television and radio content. The author examines the technological and social mechanisms that facilitated bootlegging, distinguishing it from piracy. Through case studies on classic radio, buddy cop television, Star Trek, and televised wrestling, the book explores the impact of bootlegging on different communities. Grounded in archival evidence, the author's fan-centered approach offers alternative perspectives on media history and the power of collective labor in media preservation. [Extracted from the article]

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The book "Labor Markets in Latin America: The Great Challenges of the Region," coordinated by Oscar Alfonso Martínez Martínez, analyzes labor markets in Latin America and the construction of societies where legality promotes social bonds and institutions capable of transforming the region. The book addresses labor formalization in Latin America, taking into account the heterogeneity within economic sectors and among them, as well as gender and ethnic differences. It also analyzes the impact of informal labor on income and social protection in the region. The low rate of labor formality and the coexistence of processes of exclusion and self-exclusion from the labor market are highlighted. The difficulties for labor formalization due to the lack of regulations and insufficient employment promotion by the State are mentioned. Additionally, the limited capacity of formal sectors to absorb compared to informal sectors is emphasized. It is concluded that a commitment from the State is necessary to implement strategies and policies that promote labor formalization and guarantee access to social security. [Extracted from the article]

The article "101 years of union control in Mexico (1918-2019). The reason behind low wages and inequality" by María Xelhuantzi López analyzes union control in Mexico over the course of a century. It argues that union and wage control are forms of political control used by the State to maintain hegemony over subordinate classes. It also examines the influence of anarchism in the Mexican labor movement and how the State has used cooptation and repression to control workers. Additionally, it explores the impact of US anti-communist policy on Mexican unions during the Cold War. It highlights the influence of government financial groups and the figure of Antonio Ortiz Mena in decision-making regarding labor policies. It also mentions the creation of the Mexican Council of Businessmen as a response to the influence of communism in Latin America. The emergence of union insurgency and its challenge to "charrismo" (a form of corrupt union leadership) is described, as well as the consequences of employer protection unionism on the working class, the informal economy, and the rise of the lumpenproletariat. It concludes that criminal unionism is linked to drug trafficking and has weakened collective bargaining and independent worker organization in the context of the neoliberal model. [Extracted from the article]

"Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State" by Calla Hummel explores the reasons why some informal workers organize while others do not. The book focuses on the relationship between street vendors and the state in La Paz and El Alto in Bolivia, and São Paulo in Brazil. Hummel argues that states sometimes encourage informal workers to form organizations to police themselves and avoid constant battles over public spaces. The book combines formal modeling, analysis of survey data, and ethnographic research to support this argument. It also raises important questions for future research, such as the varying capacity of workers to organize and the role of actors besides the state in regulating informal workers. [Extracted from the article]

As Roy accurately points out, the uncontrolled capital accumulation process in neoliberal age of capitalism dehumanizes labour with the tag of "informal" and tries to contain and control the labour force by disciplining beyond the realm of rights (P. 120). In overall, Roy in this book makes a serious attempt to unfold the real character of neoliberal capitalism. The large segment of petty producers residing in developing countries which have been brought into the accumulation network of capitalism through sub-contractual or arm-length production, have expanded the process of proletarianization and precariousness in third world countries. [Extracted from the article]

In chapter 7, Stark examines life in Dar es Salaam through the lens of mobile phone theft. I Power and Informality in Urban Africa i is a compilation of varied and fascinating ethnographic essays that document life in the urban periphery. The book has an introductory chapter and is then divided into three parts, which are comprised of two to four chapters. [Extracted from the article]

Adelle Blackett (chapter 13) amplifies this conundrum in the discussion on legal formalism of domestic workers indicating inclusion of human rights in labour laws. The need for a model of self-employment that sees the "demand for their labour as coming from the final demand for the services or goods that workers produce and not from profit-maximising employers" is emphasised upon by James Heinz (chapter 8, pp. 86), especially for the on-demand gig economy workers (Uma Rani, chapter 9). Judy Fudge (chapter 12) proposes that "once the focus is on the worker, rather than on the contractual relationship, it is possible to begin to consider a range of ways for dealing with social and economic risks, and not simply employment risk" (pp. 107). [Extracted from the article]

But for Conroy "the informal economy in PNG is still I too small i ". Conroy goes on to analyse post-war developments from a "social democratic" perspective, while at the same time noting alternative theories and ideologies that contributed to the contemporary debate. In a final section of the study, Conroy attempts to relate the narratives of Port Moresby, Rabaul, and Goroka to what was happening at the national level. [Extracted from the article]

But, Williams and Schneider re-introduce these persistent issues with a unique critical lens that problematizes not only how current shadow definitions exist only relationally to the formal economy, but with a lexicon structured on that which is missing or incomplete (e.g. unregulated, irregular, informal, etc.). Williams, Colin C Schneider, Friedrich Measuring the Global Shadow Economy: The Prevalence of Informal Work and Labour Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016, £108 hbk, (ISBN: 9781784717988), 247 pp. [Extracted from the article]

The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies: James A. Nyman, Kevin R. Fogle, and Mary C. Beaudry (editors), University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2019. If by intimate economies the editors of this volume mean economic relationships that are basically local in nature ("outside of formal, organized markets"), they have admirably achieved their goal. Jade Luiz's study of a 19th-century Boston brothel emphasizes the material remains and practices that benefitted the brothel economy. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "The Shadow Economy: An International Survey," second edition, by Friedrich Schneider and Dominik H. Enste, is presented.

Reviews the book "The Informal Sector in the 1980s and 1990s," by Harold Lubell.

Reviewed here are contrasting approaches to the same locus of marginalisation: the precariat in the informal sector. In developed and underdeveloped countries alike, neo-liberal economic growth is increasingly dependent on insecure, temporary and low-paid employment. Such laissez faire capitalism demonstrates additionally that – contrary to earlier views about the capitalism/unfreedom link – bonded labour is not an obstacle to accumulation, since the free market currently thrives on an unfree workforce. Because, with the exception of Marxist theory, no opposition to this pattern of economic growth argues for transcending the capitalist system, critiques of its labour regime are unable to formulate an adequate political solution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The shadow economy, Konove deftly argues as he traces the history of the Baratillo from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, is anything but a shadow. Focusing that argument on a particular economic and social space of exchange such as the Baratillo demonstrates, to good effect, the power of this kind of local history. Andrew Konove's history of the Baratillo, Mexico City's black market where used, stolen, and counterfeit goods have been traded since early colonial times, exemplifies the complex nature of these relationships and the ways that people, goods, and processes often thought to be outside of state control or counter to state interests use the mechanisms of the state to reify their place in society. [Extracted from the article]

This review essay examines three new titles –Shadow Economies of Cinema,Digital Disruption, andScreen Dynamics– that add to the canon of work on how the digitalisation of film and the plethora of new technologies and associated innovations have impacted on the discipline of film studies. What the three titles demonstrate well is the current fluctuation occurring within film studies, as scholars attempt to articulate and make sense of the changes occurring within the discipline in this contemporary era of media convergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se presenta una reseña del libro "Economía informal y perspectiva de género en contextos de trabajo" editado por Anatasia Téllez Infantes y Javier Eloy Martínez Guirao.

El artículo reseña el libro "Informality: Exit and exclusion" por Guillermo Perry, William F. Maloney, Omar S. Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, Andrew D. Mason y Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi.

The article reviews the book "Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor," by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh.

Corruption, Fraud, Organized Crime, and the Shadow Economy are very meaty topics in their own right. I am very pleased to write that Maximilian Edelbacher, Peter C. Kratcoski and Bojan Dobovsek have achieved this with aplomb in this excellent collection. Corruption, Fraud, Organized Crime, and the Shadow Economy: edited by Maximilian Edelbacher, Peter C. Kratcoski and Bojan, Dobovsek, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. [Extracted from the article]

Achim, Monica Violeta Borlea, Sorin Nicolae Economic and Financial Crime: Corruption, Shadow Economy, and Money Laundering 2021 Springer Nature Cham, Switzerland 978-3-030-51780-9 The authors Monica Violeta Achim and Sorin Nicolae Borlea structured their book entitled "Economic and Financial Crime: Corruption, shadow economy, and money laundering" in four major parts. In summary, this book deals with the most important economic and financial crime issues such as corruption, the shadow economy, and money laundering. In the first part, they concentrate on theoretical and methodological approaches to analyze economic and financial crimes such as corruption, the shadow economy, and money laundering. [Extracted from the article]