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Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor / Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh.
LIBRA HD2346.U52 C535 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venkatesh, Sudhir, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Informal sector (Economics)--Illinois--Chicago.
- Informal sector (Economics).
- Poor--Illinois--Chicago.
- Poor.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 426 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes readers into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives.
- Contents:
- 1 Living Underground 1
- 2 Home at Work 21
- 3 The Entrepreneur 91
- 4 The Street Hustler 166
- 5 The Preacher 214
- 6 Our Gang 278
- 7 As the Shady World Turns 366.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-410) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674023552
- OCLC:
- 69672046
- Publisher Number:
- 9780674023550
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