Revisiting Informality of Labor:

This paper reviews the effect of urban development from the case study on street people in Manila, Philippines. Over recent years, economic globalization has given rise to capital investment in urban space throughout the world cities attended by restructuring of the street jobs. In previous studies, street vending is often studied within the framework of the informal sector. At the same time, the limitations of traditional informal/formal dichotomy had been discussed in several arena of urban studies. This paper will review the critical discussion of previous theory on informalities in order to study the context of stratification of vendors in Manila by citing Ananya Roy's urban informality theory. Roy critically stated that informality is produced by the state and pointed out the borderlessness of informality and formality. This paper shares Roy's idea of urban informality and examine the stratification of street vendors through labor analysis. It will explain the detailed restrictions of vending style and show how the selected vendors are becoming informal. As a result, it points out the importance of focusing labor analysis together with spatial analysis in urban studies. All data and information for this paper were gathered between September 2013 and September 2019.