001478760 000__ 04616nam\a22007935i\4500 001478760 001__ 1478760 001478760 003__ DE-B1597 001478760 005__ 20231026034955.0 001478760 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478760 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478760 008__ 220524t20222006mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478760 020__ $$a9780674044647 001478760 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674044647$$2doi 001478760 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)571813 001478760 035__ $$a(OCoLC)746937143 001478760 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478760 0410_ $$aeng 001478760 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478760 072_7 $$aSOC026030$$2bisacsh 001478760 08204 $$a330$$222 001478760 1001_ $$aVenkatesh, Sudhir Alladi, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478760 24510 $$aOff the Books :$$bThe Underground Economy of the Urban Poor /$$cSudhir Alladi Venkatesh. 001478760 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2022] 001478760 264_4 $$c©2006 001478760 300__ $$a1 online resource (448 p.) 001478760 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478760 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478760 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478760 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478760 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478760 520__ $$aIn 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. 001478760 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478760 546__ $$aIn English. 001478760 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022) 001478760 650_0 $$aInformal sector (Economics)$$zIllinois$$zChicago. 001478760 650_0 $$aPoor$$zIllinois$$zChicago. 001478760 650_7 $$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.$$2bisacsh 001478760 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478760 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$z9783110756067 001478760 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478760 852__ $$bebk 001478760 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674044647$$zOnline Access 001478760 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478760$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478760 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478760 912__ $$a978-3-11-075606-7 HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$b2013 001478760 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478760 912__ $$aEBA_CL_SN 001478760 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478760 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478760 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_SN 001478760 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478760 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478760 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478760 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478760 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478760 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478760 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478760 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478760 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478760 980__ $$aBIB 001478760 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478760 982__ $$aEbook 001478760 983__ $$aOnline