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  title info:
    title: Labor in a Globalizing City
    sub title: Economic Restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil
  name:
    name part: Buechler, Simone Judith.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 340 p. 32 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Simone Judith Buechler.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Markets
  subject:
    topic: Economic geography
  subject:
    topic: Microeconomics
  subject:
    topic: Labor economics
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Economic Geography
  subject:
    topic: Emerging Markets/Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Labor Economics
  subject:
    topic: Microeconomics
  classification: HF1021-1027
  classification: 330.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Urban and Landscape Perspectives ; 16
  identifier: 9783319016610
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01661-0
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    record creation date: 131205
    record change date: 20151103125004.0
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