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ISBN-13
9780674030718
PublicationDate
01-Oct-08
CategoryBH
Social Science
Book Title
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
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Off Books Underground Economy Urban Poor by Venkatesh Sudhir Alla
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Listen to a short interview with Sudhir VenkateshHost: Chris Gond
BookTitle
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
UPC
9780674030718
ISBN
9780674030718
EAN
9780674030718
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject Area
Urban Planning, Economic Sociology
Publication Name
Off the Books: the Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Item Height
210 mm
Author
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Subject
Government
Item Width
140 mm
Number of Pages
448 Pages

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Listen to a short interview with Sudhir VenkateshHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living off the books that is daily life in the ghetto. From women who clean houses and prepare lunches for the local hospital to small-scale entrepreneurs like the mechanic who works in an alley; from the preacher who provides mediation services to the salon owner who rents her store out for gambling parties; and from street vendors hawking socks and incense to the drug dealing and extortion of the local gang, we come to see how these activities form the backbone of the ghetto economy. What emerges are the innumerable ways that these men and women, immersed in their shadowy economic pursuits, are connected to and reliant upon one another. The underground economy, as Venkatesh's subtle storytelling reveals, functions as an intricate web, and in the strength of its strands lie the fates of many Maquis Park residents. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.

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Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674030718
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Off the Books: the Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Government
Type
Textbook
Author
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Subject Area
Urban Planning, Economic Sociology
Format
Paperback

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Item Height
210 mm
Item Width
140 mm

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United States
Title_Author
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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