Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor / Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh.

Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living off the books that...

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Main Author: Venkatesh, Sudhir, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
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Call Number: HD2346.U52 C535 2006
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