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Author Bastian, Hope, author.

Title Everyday adjustments in Havana : economic reforms, mobility, and emerging inequalities / Hope Bastian
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 183 pages)
Series Lexington studies on Cuba
Contents Ntroduction: understanding inequality in Cuba -- The political and social context of contemporary Cuba -- Changing configurations of capital and logics of stratification in Cuban society -- Stratification, income, and cultural consumption in contemporary Cuba -- "Adjusting to the adjustment": household reproduction strategies and new economic spaces in Havana, 2010-2015 -- The rebirth of real estate: reproducing class inequalities in Havana -- Epilogue: new social groups in Havana, 2015-2016
Summary By comparing the current reform process under President Raúl Castro to Cuba's opening to market capitalism during the 1990s Special Period crisis, this book highlights the differences and continuities between adjustments in both periods and their social impacts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2018)
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Civilization
Economic history
Social conditions
SUBJECT Havana (Cuba) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Havana (Cuba) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Havana (Cuba) -- Civilization -- 21st century
Havana (Cuba) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002330
Subject Cuba -- Havana
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018017342
ISBN 9781498571104
1498571107