Labor in a Globalizing City Economic Restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil
The extraordinary stories of low-income women living in São Paulo, industrial case studies and the details of three squatter settlements, and communities in the periphery researched in Simone Buechler’s book, Labor in a Globalizing City, allow us to better understand the period of economic transform...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Urban and Landscape Perspectives
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Spectrum of Voices in the São Paulo Economy
- Six Industrial Case Studies: Internal and External Flexibilization and Technological Change
- The History, Politics, and Economies of Three Communities and their Inhabitants
- Outsourcing Production and Commerce: A Close Examination of Unregistered Salaried Workers, Sweatshop Workers, Homeworkers and Ambulant Vendors for Firms
- The Increasingly Precarious Nature of Self-Employment
- “Destiny is not set in stone”: Social Actors, Cooperatives, and Local Coalition-Building
- Conclusion