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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

By Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780674044647
DOI
10.4159/9780674044647
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2541157 bytes)
Pages
448\449
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 10:48:59

Description

Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, a rich portrait of a community, and a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America.

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