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Labor in a Globalizing City - Economic Restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Labor in a Globalizing City - Economic Restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives, 16
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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 transformation in São 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. Â
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