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02851cam a22005174a 4500 001 918CB44C2B0D11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20221102014946 008 060511s2006 mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2006046213 020 $a 9780674023550 (alk. paper) 020 $a 0674023552 (alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d UKM $d C#P $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d YBM $d COO $d IG# $d GC0 $d BTCTA $d PUL $d VP@ $d BUR $d STF $d NNG $d NOR $d IWV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HD2346.U52 $b C535 2006 082 00 $a 330 $2 22 100 1 $a Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. 245 1 $a Off the books : $b the underground economy of the urban poor / $c Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. 260 $a Cambridge, Mass. : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2006. 300 $a xix, 426 p. ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-410) and index. 520 $a 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 is daily life in the ghetto. From women who clean houses and prepare lunches for the local hospital to small-scale entrepreneurs like the mechanic who works in an alley; from the preacher who provides mediation services to the beauty parlor owner who rents her store out for gambling parties; and from street vendors hawking socks and incense to the drug dealing and extortion of the local gang, we come to see how these activities form the backbone of the ghetto economy.--From publisher description. 505 00 $t Index. $g 7. $t Living underground -- $g 2. $t Home at work -- $g 3. The $t entrepreneur -- $g 4. The $t street hustler -- $g 5. The $t preacher -- $g 6. $t Our gang -- $g 7. $t As the shady world turns -- $t Notes -- $t Acknowledgments -- $t Index. 650 0 $a Informal sector (Economics) $z Chicago. $z Chicago. 650 0 $a Poor $z Chicago. $z Chicago. 941 $a 17 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724063258.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214015147.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020013919.0 952 $l LTAX046 $d 20220805011039.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508013945.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926090455.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160823084556.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20151001011754.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20140415020207.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PWAX296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OMAX631 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=918CB44C2B0D11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search