Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi

Published by Harvard U. P. Cambridge (Mass.) 2006

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1st edition hardback with dust jacket New book octavo xix + 426pp., notes, index, 'Takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighbourhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, & remarkable ways in which a community survives; an entire world of unregulated, unreported, & untaxed work, a system of living off the books that is daily life in the ghetto'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
• Publisher: Harvard U. P. Cambridge (Mass.) 2006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included