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Higglers in Kingston - Women's Informal Work in Jamaica (Paperback)
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Higglers in Kingston - Women's Informal Work in Jamaica (Paperback)
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Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even
a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica
encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and
ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires
nothing less than a herculean effort to realize their
entrepreneurial dreams. In Higglers in Kingston, Winnifred
Brown-Glaude puts the reader on the ground in frenetic urban
Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. She explores the
lives of informal market laborers, called "higglers," across the
city as they navigate a corrupt and inaccessible "official"
Jamaican economy. But rather than focus merely on the present-day
situation, she contextualizes how Jamaica arrived at this point,
delving deep into the island's history as a former colony, a home
to slaves and masters alike, and an eventual nation of competing
and conflicted racial sectors. Higglers in Kingston weaves together
contemporary ethnography, economic history, and sociology of race
to address a broad audience of readers on a crucial economic and
cultural center.
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