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RECORD NUMBER: 870 OF 1771Main Title | Labor in a Globalizing City Economic Restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil / [electronic resource] : | ||||
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Type | EBOOK | ||||
Author | Buechler, Simone Judith. | ||||
Publisher | Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, | ||||
Year Published | 2014 | ||||
Call Number | HF1021-1027 | ||||
ISBN | 9783319016610 | ||||
Subjects | Geography ; Labor economics ; Microeconomics | ||||
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Collation | XIV, 340 p. 32 illus. in color. online resource. | ||||
Notes | Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only |
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Contents Notes | Introduction -- The Spectrum of Voices in the São Paulo Economy -- Six Industrial Case Studies: Internal and External Flexibilization and Technological Change -- The History, Politics, and Economies of Three Communities and their Inhabitants -- Outsourcing Production and Commerce: A Close Examination of Unregistered Salaried Workers, Sweatshop Workers, Homeworkers and Ambulant Vendors for Firms -- The Increasingly Precarious Nature of Self-Employment -- "Destiny is not set in stone": Social Actors, Cooperatives, and Local Coalition-Building -- Conclusion. 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. |