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Gender, identity and opportunity: Why self-employed persons choose to work in the underground economy (New York City).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gender, identity and opportunity: Why self-employed persons choose to work in the underground economy (New York City)./
Author:	Snyder, Karrie Ann.
Description:	283 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4225.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Sociology, Individual and Family Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3114229
ISBN:	0496617229

Gender, identity and opportunity: Why self-employed persons choose to work in the underground economy (New York City).
Snyder, Karrie Ann.

Gender, identity and opportunity: Why self-employed persons choose to work in the underground economy (New York City). - 283 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4225.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.

My dissertation examines why individuals become involved in the informal economy. I interviewed 60 male and female self-employed persons working in Old Town's informal economy in New York City. Most current literature focuses on external pressures (e.g., economic restructuring) that force workers into the informal economy. However, I find that within this informal economic niche, my mostly middle-class workers are drawn to the informal sector as a way to explore a new work identity. Even among those workers who entered the informal economy due to constricted formal sector opportunities, most develop a commitment to the informal sector as a long-term career plan. However, I find that the work choices my respondents make are influenced by their financial needs, family responsibilities, career aspirations and emotional needs. I also discuss the opportunity structure of the Old Town's informal sector. I consider both barriers to informal sector employment as a well as obstacles to using the informal sector as a conduit of identity change and transformation. This research extends current research on the informal sector by looking at informal activity among middle-class workers in an advanced economy and by examining the relationship between identity and work in the informal economy.

ISBN: 0496617229Subjects--Topical Terms:

626655
Sociology, Individual and Family Studies.

Gender, identity and opportunity: Why self-employed persons choose to work in the underground economy (New York City).
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