TY - T1 - A concept at work : 'Informal economy' and contestations of labour, law and the state in Tanzania SN - / UR - URN:ISBN:978-951-51-6551-0; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/319344 T3 - A1 - Steiler, Ilona A2 - PB - Helsingin yliopisto Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - This thesis is concerned with the content, context and consequences of conceptions and representations of the ‘informal economy’. The central argument is that the ‘informal economy’ presents a political and social, normative and essentially contested concept that has real (discursive, material, social) effects on current transformations of the world of work and of social order. ‘Informal economy’, as concept and imaginary, is central to formalization and informalization which are here primarily ... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - development Studies N1 - PP - ER -