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"Informal labor" as a book category encompasses writing about work that falls outside formal, regulated employment — street vendors, domestic and care workers, day laborers, informal contractors, gig-economy freelancers, seasonal agricultural workers and other precarious or unregistered forms of work. Titles range from ethnographies and investigative journalism to memoirs, policy analysis and organizing histories, and they examine the everyday realities, survival strategies and social networks that sustain informal workers as well as the legal invisibility, economic vulnerability and power imbalances they face. Common themes include migration, gender and racial dynamics, globalization and technological change, labor rights campaigns and policy responses, and the informal institutions and solidarities that shape workers’ lives.

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