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Centralizing informal work, complexifying inclusion, decolonizing labour law

Centralizar o trabalho informal, complexificar a inclusão, descolonizar o direito do trabalho

Abstract

The article demonstrates how labour regulation is implicated in the process of coloniality, by complexifying the idea of inclusion of informal workers in Brazil. It draws a theoretical and empirical framework to informality, connected to dissident epistemological perspectives, and investigates inclusion from there. The outcome is a critique of the ambiguous ways labour law conceptualizes inclusion and a call for its decolonization.

Keywords:
Informal work; Coloniality of labour regulation; Inclusion

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