Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 340 pages) : color illustrations |
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Urban and landscape perspectives ; volume 16 |
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Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 16.
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Contents |
Introduction -- The Spectrum of Voices in the São Paulo Economy -- Six Industrial Case Studies: Internal and External Flexibilization and Technological Change -- The History, Politics, and Economies of Three Communities and their Inhabitants -- Outsourcing Production and Commerce: A Close Examination of Unregistered Salaried Workers, Sweatshop Workers, Homeworkers and Ambulant Vendors for Firms -- The Increasingly Precarious Nature of Self-Employment -- 'Destiny is not set in stone': Social Actors, Cooperatives, and Local Coalition-Building -- Conclusion |
Summary |
The extraordinary stories of low-income women living in São Paulo, industrial case studies and the details of three squatter settlements, and communities in the periphery researched in Simone Buechler's book, Labor in a Globalizing City, allow us to better understand the period of economic transformation in São Paulo from 1996 to 2003. Buechler's in-depth ethnographic research over a period of 17 years include interviews with a variety of social actors ranging from favela inhabitants to Wall Street bankers. Buechler examines the paradox of a globalizing city with highly developed financial, service, and industrial sectors, but at the same time a growing sector of microenterprises, degraded labor, considerable unemployment, unprecedented inequality, and precarious infrastructure in its low-income communities. The author argues that informalization and low-income women's labor are an integral part of the global economy. Other countries are continuing to use the same kind of neo-liberal economic model even though once again with the latest global financial crisis, it has proven to be detrimental to many workers |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 8, 2014) |
Subject |
Labor economics -- Brazil -- São Paulo
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Geography.
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Labor economics.
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Microeconomics.
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Geography
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geography.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Ingénierie.
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Geography
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Labor economics
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Microeconomics
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Brazil -- São Paulo
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783319016610 |
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331901661X |
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