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List subscribers may be interested in the following new book: Cash-in-hand work: the underground economy and the hidden economy of favours Colin C Williams Palgrave-Macmillan, September 2004 What are the varieties of cash-in-hand work? Who undertakes these different forms of cash-in-hand work and why do they do it? Where is such work to be found? And what should government do? This book shows that throughout the advanced economies, cash-in-hand work is changing. As societies become more commodified, cash payments are becoming more common whenever people do favours for friends, neighbours and kin. The result is that cash-in-hand economies are now composed of not only an underground sector (work akin to formal employment conducted for profit-motivated purposes) but also a hidden economy of favours more akin to mutual aid. The outcome is a call for a radical rethink of whether seeking its eradication through tougher regulations is always appropriate. Re-reading both forms of cash-in-hand work as assets rather than obstacles to development, recommendations are made that harness their positive attributes and eradicate their more negative consequences. For further information, go to: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403921725 Professor Colin C Williams The Management Centre University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5387 E-mail: [log in to unmask]