TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Buechler, Simone,
CN  - SpringerLink
CN  - HD4901
ID  - 696888
KW  - Labor economics
KW  - Geography.
KW  - Labor economics.
KW  - Microeconomics.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01661-0
N2  - 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.
SN  - 9783319016610 (eBook)
SN  - 331901661X (eBook)
T1  - Labor in a globalizing cityeconomic restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil /
TI  - Labor in a globalizing cityeconomic restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01661-0
VL  - volume 16
ER  -