Labor in a Globalizing City - Economic Restructuring in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

The extraordinary stories of low-income women living in Sao 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 transformation in Sao Paulo from 1996 to 2003. Buechler's in-depth ethnographic research over a period of 17 years include interviews with a variety of social actors ranging from favela inhabitants to Wall Street bankers. Buechler examines the paradox of a globalizing city with highly developed financial, service, and industrial sectors, but at the same time a growing sector of microenterprises, degraded labor, considerable unemployment, unprecedented inequality, and precarious infrastructure in its low-income communities. The author argues that informalization and low-income women's labor are an integral part of the global economy. Other countries are continuing to use the same kind of neo-liberal economic model even though once again with the latest global financial crisis, it has proven to be detrimental to many workers.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Urban and Landscape Perspectives, 16
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	2014
Authors:	Simone Judith Buechler
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	340
Edition:	2014 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-01660-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Microeconomics > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Sales & marketing > Market research Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > Economic geography
LSN:	3-319-01660-1
Barcode:	9783319016603

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