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

Fern¿ndez-Kelly, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271027517 ISBN 13: 9780271027517

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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¿lez de la Rocha, Jos¿ Itzigsohn, Alejandro Portes, and Juan Manuel Ram¿rez S¿iz.

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About the Authors

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271027517
• ISBN 13: 9780271027517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288