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Informalisation in Work and Employment: A Permissive Visibility or Another (Hidden) Inequality?

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Professionalised human resource management (HRM) research ignores hidden inequalities such as work that is non-compliant with prevailing employment regulation; accordingly it is necessary to extend the reach of HRM research to recognise this omission. Firstly, both compliant informalisation, frequently referred to as casualisation and non-compliant informalisation, centre on in-work exploitation, precariousness and vulnerability. Secondly, these hidden inequalities enable a re-skilled human resource function to deliver value to business owners and investors. These arguments on hidden inequalities are important to HRM research because the socio-economic origins of informal work practices and associated hidden inequalities lie in formalised practice often under the label of best way strategic HRM.

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Clark, I. (2019). Informalisation in Work and Employment: A Permissive Visibility or Another (Hidden) Inequality?. In: Nachmias, S., Caven, V. (eds) Inequality and Organizational Practice. Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11647-7_9

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