Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America

Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America
ISBN-10
0271027509
ISBN-13
9780271027500
Series
Out of the Shadows
Category
Political Science
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Penn State Press
Authors
Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Jon Shefner

Description

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 influenced local efforts to resolve political and economic needs&—and how these seemingly separate issues are indeed deeply related. In addition to the editors, contributors are Javier Auyero, Miguel Angel Centeno, Sylvia Chant, Robert Gay, Mercedes Gonz&ález de la Rocha, Jos&é Itzigsohn, Alejandro Portes, and Juan Manuel Ram&írez S&áiz.

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