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Nelson, Nancy Lee.

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Public order and private entrepreneurs: The pocket economy of street vending in Bogota, Colombia.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Public order and private entrepreneurs: The pocket economy of street vending in Bogota, Colombia./
Author:	Nelson, Nancy Lee.
Description:	368 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-01, Section: A, page: 0227.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-01A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9315936

Public order and private entrepreneurs: The pocket economy of street vending in Bogota, Colombia.
Nelson, Nancy Lee.

Public order and private entrepreneurs: The pocket economy of street vending in Bogota, Colombia. - 368 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-01, Section: A, page: 0227.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1992.

Studies of simple economic activities often depict a dual economy. As a country develops economically, it is believed that workers involved in these "traditional" or "informal" enterprises will increasingly move into the "modern" or "formal" wage labor sector. Critics of these dualistic models portray a unitary economic system in which small-scale unregulated enterprises persist, not in their own interests, but because of the reduced labor costs they accrue to more fully capitalized enterprises.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Public order and private entrepreneurs: The pocket economy of street vending in Bogota, Colombia.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1992.
520 $a Studies of simple economic activities often depict a dual economy. As a country develops economically, it is believed that workers involved in these "traditional" or "informal" enterprises will increasingly move into the "modern" or "formal" wage labor sector. Critics of these dualistic models portray a unitary economic system in which small-scale unregulated enterprises persist, not in their own interests, but because of the reduced labor costs they accrue to more fully capitalized enterprises.
520 $a This study begins from the premise that petty commodity production and trade is expanding in both advanced capitalist and industrializing countries (Portes, et al. 1989). The research demonstrates that these activities have their own dynamic which also accrues certain economic benefits to lower income, disenfranchised workers.
520 $a In Colombia, street vending provides more economic security than the wage labor jobs available to this segment of the labor force. The expansion of street trade has less to do with national unemployment levels than with the conditions of employment for lower income groups. Low wages, long hours, humiliating or dangerous working conditions, job insecurity and discriminating hiring practices belie the popular assumption that wage workers are better off than those who engage in street trade.
520 $a The vendors characterize their activities as a "pocket economy." Income and expenditures from the business and the household continually flow through the same pocket. "Profit and loss" are not salient concepts in this system. In many ways the pocket economy parallels the peasant domestic economy. The vendors are not "urban peasants" simply clinging to tradition, however. As petty commodity producers and traders, both street traders and peasants gain certain economic advantages by remaining marginal to the market and avoiding more fully commoditized exchanges.
520 $a The vendors, among others, are considered a "public order" problem in Colombia. To the traders, "public order" is a euphemism for class relations in a highly inequitable system. As part of the disenfranchised classes, the vendors resist and challenge the extant order in various ways. Their forms of resistance are individual but not insignificant--either in terms of the number of vendors or the proportion of the economy they represent.
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