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Labor in a Globalizing City - Economic Restructuring in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Labor in a Globalizing City - Economic Restructuring in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives, 16
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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.
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