Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor /

Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living off the books that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Venkatesh, Sudhir, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2006]
Temas:
Informal sector (Economics) > Illinois > Chicago.
Poor > Illinois > Chicago.
Secteur informel (Économie politique) > Illinois > Chicago.
Pauvres > Illinois > Chicago.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Informal sector (Economics)
Poor
Schattenwirtschaft
Stadtbevölkerung
Armut
Poor > Employment > Illinois > Chicago.
Poor > Illinois > Chicago > Economic conditions.
Urban poor > Illinois > Chicago.
Illinois > Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • 1. Living underground
  • 2. Home at work
  • 3. The entrepreneur
  • 4. The street hustler
  • 5. The preacher
  • 6. Our gang
  • 7. As the shady world turns
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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