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Author Buechler, Simone, author.

Title Labor in a globalizing city : economic restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil / Simone Judith Buechler
Published Cham : Springer, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 340 pages) : color illustrations
Series Urban and landscape perspectives ; volume 16
Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 16.
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
Geography.
Labor economics.
Microeconomics.
Geography
geography.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Ingénierie.
Geography
Labor economics
Microeconomics
Brazil -- São Paulo
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319016610
331901661X