THE POINT OF VIEW OF POOR PEOPLE WORKING IN INFORMAL SECTOR ON POVERTY

Year 2010, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 35 - 44, 01.06.2010

Gonul Iclı

Abstract

Even though the poor with a lower income than poverty line though hired to be paid constitute the
majority of the whole population in many countries, they have not been researched sufficiently.
Working poor people can not reach the sufficient level of income to meet their expenses as a result
of familial circumstances like insufficient education, divorce, excessiveness of the number of
children, loss of a spouse as well as working for low wage due to the labour market.
This research is supposed to be about poor people working as wage earners in informal sector in
Denizli. 100 apartment doorkeepers, 100 house cleaners and 100 baby sitters have been included
into the research as its samples. This research is concerned with the point of view about poverty of
working poor people, their strategies of coping with poverty and their social relations.

Keywords

Working poor, urban poverty, economic conditions, informal sector

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