The Informal Economy and Employment in Brazil [electronic resource] : Latin America, Modernization, and Social Changes /
Coletto, D.author.
This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Photos; Acknowledgments; Premises; 1 The Informal Economy Dilemmas: Old and New Views; 2 Catadores and Catadoras (The Garbage Collectors); 3 Ambulantes and Camelôs (The Street Vendors); 4 Sacoleiras and Sacoleiros (Door-to-Door Saleswomen and Commercial Agents); 5 Informality, Regulation, and Development; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
World history.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Latin American Culture.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology, general.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.