Labor in a globalizing city economic restructuring in Sao Paulo, Brazil / [electronic resource] :
by Simone Judith Buechler.
- Cham : Springer, [2014]
- 1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations.
- Urban and Landscape Perspectives ; 16 .
- Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 16. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The extraordinary stories of low-income women living in Sao 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 Sao 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. He 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.