Title
Labor in a globalizing city [electronic resource] : economic restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil / Simone Judith Buechler.
ISBN
9783319016610 (eBook)
331901661X (eBook)
9783319016603
3319016601
Published
Cham : Springer, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 340 pages) : color illustrations.
Call Number
HD4901 .B84 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.09816
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 8, 2014).
Series
Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 16.
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.
