01218nam a22001577a 4500 518519 518519 210928b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Chen, Martha 29587 COVID-19, cities and urban informal workers: India in comparative perspective The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 63(1), Oct, 2020: p.41-46 Informal workers represent 61% of all workers globally—a total of 2 billion workers worldwide (ILO 2018). Of these, an estimated 1.6 billion—80%—could see their livelihoods destroyed due to the lockdowns and related shelter-at-home restrictions in response to COVID-19 (ILO 2020). Since long before the COVID-19 virus hit, informal workers have been struggling for justice, equality and dignity as workers and as human beings in large part because they are widely stigmatized by economists and policy makers as illegal and non-productive, while most are trying to earn an honest living under a very harsh policy and regulatory environment. – Reproduced COVID-19, Cities, Urban informal workers, Labour 29588 The Indian Journal of Labour Economics COVID-19 (DISEASE) - ECONOMIC ASPECTS AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 392588 IIPA IIPA 2021-09-28 63(1), Oct, 2020: p.41-46 AR125652 2021-09-28 AR