@article{696888,
      recid = {696888},
      author = {Buechler, Simone,},
      title = {Labor in a globalizing city economic restructuring in São  Paulo, Brazil / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 340 pages) :},
      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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/696888},
}