In this revelatory book, Sudhir 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, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.
Titel
Off the Books
Untertitel
The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Autor
EAN
9780674044647
ISBN
978-0-674-04464-7
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
30.06.2009
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Jahr
2009
Untertitel
Englisch
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