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Sandra C. Mendiola Garcia - Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico - 9780803275034 - V9780803275034
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Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico

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Description for Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico Hardback. Series: The Mexican Experience. Num Pages: 294 pages, 12 photographs, 1 map, index. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; KNXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico’s economically active population. Neither taxed nor monitored by the government, the informal sector is the fastest growing economic sector in the world.   

In Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola García explores the political lives and economic significance of this otherwise overlooked population, focusing on the radical street vendors during the 1970s and 1980s in Puebla, Mexico’s fourth-largest ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
The Mexican Experience
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803275034
SKU
V9780803275034
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About Sandra C. Mendiola Garcia
Sandra C. Mendiola García is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas.      

Reviews for Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
"Mendiola García’s use of oral interviews and photographs brings Puebla’s streets to life, giving us a sense of the sights, smells, and quotidian rhythms of these dynamic public spaces. Those sources also shed light on aspects of the UPVA’s history that written documents obscure, especially the central role that women played in the union despite their exclusion from the highest ... Read more

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