30.10.2016 - 06:49 [ In These Times ]

New U.N. Report Shows Just How Awful Globalization and Informal Employment Are for Workers

(26.Oktober) In fact, worldwide, most workers are now without formal employment arrangements. According to the report, an estimated 60.7 percent of the world’s workers “labor in the informal economy, where employment relationships are not legally regulated or socially protected.” In some countries this workforce rises to 90 percent.