Labor in a Globalizing City: Economic Restructuring in Sao Paulo, Brazil - Couverture rigide

Buechler, Simone Judith

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3319016601 ISBN 13 : 9783319016603

Editeur : Springer International Publishing AG, 2013

Synopsis

This book examines the paradox of a globalizing city, which has both a highly developed financial, service, and industrial sector as well as degraded labor, considerable unemployment, unprecedented inequality, and precarious infrastructure.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Simone Buechler, PhD is an assistant professor in Latin American and Latino Studies. She received a PhD from the Department of Urban Planning at Columbia University, where she studied under Saskia Sassen and Peter Marcuse. She was a post-doctoral fellow with the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University under Prof. Stiglitz after finishing a faculty fellowship in Metropolitan Studies at New York University. Before, she worked with the United Nations Development Fund for Women and US President Obama's mother, Ann Dunham Sutoro, setting up a coalition of micro-credit lenders. Since 1996 she has conducted extensive ethnographic and statistical research on the impact of economic globalization on low-income women in São Paulo. Her previous publications include chapters in The Global City Reader and Deciphering the Global and an article on Bolivian sweatshops in São Paulo in Latin American Perspectives. In addition, she has conducted research on the effect of the financial crisis on Brazilian immigrants in Newark, NJ and on declining levels of inequality in São Paulo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing AG
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319016601
• ISBN 13: 9783319016603
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 354
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