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Higglers in Kingston : women's informal work in Jamaica /
Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires nothing less than a herculean effort to rea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires nothing less than a herculean effort to realize their entrepreneurial dreams. The author explores the lives of informal market laborers, called "higglers," across the city in frenetic urban Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica, as they navigate a corrupt and inaccessible "official" Jamaican economy. But rather than focus merely on the present-day situation, she contextualizes how Jamaica arrived at this point, delving deep into the island's history as a former colony, a home to slaves and masters alike, and an eventual nation of competing and conflicted racial sectors. This book weaves together contemporary ethnography, economic history, and sociology of race to address a broad audience of readers on a crucial economic and cultural center. -- From Book Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826517678 0826517676 |