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Street Democracy - Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico (Paperback)
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Street Democracy - Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico (Paperback)
Series: The Mexican Experience
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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 Garcia 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 city. She shows how the Popular Union of
Street Vendors challenged the ruling party's ability to control
unions and local authorities' power to regulate the use of public
space. Since vendors could not strike or stop production like
workers in the formal economy, they devised innovative and
alternative strategies to protect their right to make a living in
public spaces. By examining the political activism and historical
relationship of street vendors to the ruling Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mendiola Garcia offers insights into
grassroots organizing, the Mexican Dirty War, and the politics of
urban renewal, issues that remain at the core of street vendors'
experience even today.
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