Reading Development

Random readings on society, politics and change – Jorge Carrillo

A living income for the informal workers in the waste sector

Despite their indispensable role, informal workers often remain undervalued and underpaid in many nations. This study underscores the critical importance of recognizing waste workers and providing them with a living … Continue reading

Thursday, 28 March 2024 · Leave a comment

The World Wide Web of Work

Global Labour History has rapidly gained ground as a field of study in the 21st century, attracting interest in the Global South and North alike. Scholars derive inspiration from the … Continue reading

Monday, 18 March 2024 · Leave a comment

Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality

Today’s urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather … Continue reading

Saturday, 7 October 2023 · Leave a comment

The Urban Dimensions of Inequality and Equality

The spatialisation of inequalities through processes of urbanisation have become increasingly significant over the last fifty years as disparities have both widened and concentrated in and between urban and territorial … Continue reading

Monday, 13 December 2021 · Leave a comment

The Geopolitics of Cities: Old challenges, new issues

How an urban global agenda should respond to the social, economic and environmental challenges faced by an unequal urban society? How would it address the increase of socio-spatial inequalities and … Continue reading

Wednesday, 15 September 2021 · Leave a comment

Social protection and inequality in the global South: Politics, actors and institutions

It explores the links between contemporary social protection approaches and inequality in developing countries, focusing on political economy drivers and the role of actors and institutions in recent reform and … Continue reading

Thursday, 3 June 2021 · Leave a comment

Informality, Inequality, and Feminization of Labor

Using two novel datasets of the size of the informal economy and income inequality, this study provides evidence on the nexus of informality and inequality with particular attention to the … Continue reading

Sunday, 10 January 2021 · Leave a comment

Intergenerational family social capital and inequalities in Guayaquil, Ecuador

This paper describes the role of intergenerational processes in increasing or reducing multidimensional inequality in Indio Guayas, a low-income peripheral settlement in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It also examines the importance of … Continue reading

Tuesday, 29 September 2020 · Leave a comment

Inequality as Entitlements over Labor

The modern study of economic inequality is based on the distribution of entitlements over goods and services. But social commentators at least since Rousseau have been concerned with a different … Continue reading

Friday, 1 May 2020 · Leave a comment