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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
María Patricia Fernández-Kelly; Jon Shefner |
ISBN: | 0271027509 9780271027500 0271027517 9780271027517 |
OCLC Number: | 1013321973 |
Description: | 280 pages |
Contents: | Introduction / Patricia Fernndez-Kelly -- The informal economy in the shadow of the state / Miguel Angel Centeno and Alejandro Portes -- Risk and regulation in informal and illegal markets / John C. Cross and Sergio Pea -- Neoliberalism, markets, and informal grassroots economies / Jos Itzigsohn -- Vanishing assets: cumulative disadvantages among the urban poor / Mercedes Gonzlez de la Rocha -- Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the "feminization of poverty" thesis / Sylvia Chant -- Protest in contemporary Argentina: a contentious repertoire in the making / Javier Auyero -- The even more difficult transition from clientelism to citizenship: lessons from Brazil / Robert Gay -- Informal politics in the Mexican democratic transition: the case of the people's urban movement / Juan Manuel Ramrez Sis -- "Do you think democracy is a magical thing?" From basic needs to democratization in informal politics / Jon Shefner. |
Responsibility: | edited by Patricia Fernández-Kelly and Jon Shefner. |
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"With few exceptions, scholars from Left to Right have presented simplistic accounts of the political ramifications of economic informality in the underdeveloped world. Such depictions have been curiously out of sync with the salutary influence of the 'bringing the state back in' scholarship of the last couple of decades or so. This volume makes a crucial contribution to the scholarly and policy literatures by emphasizing the embeddedness of informal economies in state-society arrangements that cut across local, national, and transnational terrains of the Latin American and global political economies. The volume represents essential reading for scholars, policy specialists, students, and others who seek to make sense of the politico-social consequences of deepening inequality and poverty in the contemporary world."-Richard Tardanico, Florida International University "On the whole, the contributions to Out of the Shadows are persuasively argued and provide excellent empirical material on grassroots informal activities across Latin America."-Tina Hilgers, Latin American Research Review "Out of the Shadows should be a central reference for those interested in the grassroots reality of neoliberalism and democracy, and its chapter by Centeno and Portes should be read by anyone interested in Latin American economies."-Tina Hilgers, Latin American Research Review Read more...

