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This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy.

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The Informal Economy Dilemmas: Old and New Views Catadores and Catadoras (the Garbage Collectors) Ambulantes and Camelôs (the Street Vendors) Sacoleiras and Sacoleiros (Door-to-door Saleswomen and Commercial Agents) Informality, Regulation, and Development

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Diego Coletto is an assistant professor of Economic Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). In recent years, he has pursued research projects investigating changes in employment relationships in the private and public sectors, with particular attention to the forms of flexible work. Since 2003, he has worked as national correspondent for the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) and the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM). Both EIRO and ERM are projects of the European Foundation for the Improvement of the Working and Living Conditions (Eurofound). For the two observatories, he wrote various articles and reports, which have been published on the Eurofound website.

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