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17%OFFPatricia Fernández-Kelly (Ed.) - Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America - 9780271027500 - V9780271027500
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Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America

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Description for Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America Hardback. Editor(s): Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia; Shefner, Jon. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540.

Since the beginning of scholarly writing about the informal economy in the mid-1970s, the debate has evolved from addressing survival strategies of the poor to considering the implications for national development and the global economy. Simultaneously, research on informal politics has ranged from neighborhood clientelism to contentious social movements basing their claims on a variety of social identities in their quest for social justice.

Despite related empirical and theoretical concerns, these research traditions have seldom engaged in dialogue with one another. Out of the Shadows brings leading scholars of the informal economy and informal politics together to address how globalization has ... Read more

In addition to the editors, contributors are Javier Auyero, Miguel Angel Centeno, Sylvia Chant, Robert Gay, Mercedes González de la Rocha, José Itzigsohn, Alejandro Portes, and Juan Manuel Ramírez Sáiz.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271027500
SKU
V9780271027500
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About Patricia Fernández-Kelly (Ed.)
Patricia Fernández-Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Princeton University, where she also holds an appointment with the Office of Population Research. Jon Shefner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee.

Reviews for Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America
“With few exceptions, scholars from Left to Right have presented simplistic accounts of the political ramifications of economic informality in the underdeveloped world. Such depictions have been curiously out of sync with the salutary influence of the ‘bringing the state back in’ scholarship of the last couple of decades or so. This volume makes a crucial contribution to the scholarly ... Read more

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