Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor /
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...
| Основен автор: | Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=282809 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Off the books. |
Съдържание:
- Prologue
- 1.
- Living underground
- 2.
- Home at work
- 3.
- The entrepreneur
- 4.
- The street hustler
- 5.
- The preacher
- 6.
- Our gang
- 7.
- As the shady world turns
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.