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Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic
2022
Overview
The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth
rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of
new, good jobs has been remarkably weak. How have ordinary and poor
Dominicans worked and lived in the shadow of the country's
conspicuous growth rates? This book considers this question through
an ethnographic exploration of the popular economy in the Dominican
capital. Focusing on the city's precarious small businesses,
including furniture manufacturers, food stalls, street-corner
stores, and savings and credit cooperatives, Krohn-Hansen shows how
people make a living, tackle market shifts, and the factors that
characterize their relationship to the state and pervasive
corruption.
Empirically grounded, this book examines the condition of the
urban masses in Santo Domingo, offering an original and captivating
contribution to the scholarship on popular economic practices,
urban changes, and today's Latin America and the Caribbean. This
will be essential reading for scholars and policy makers.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Subject
/ cities
/ Informal sector (Economics) -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo
/ Labor
/ Labor -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo
/ Labor market -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy
/ Precarious employment -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo
/ Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
/ Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) -- Economic conditions
/ Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) -- Social conditions
ISBN
1503630528, 9781503630529, 9781503631571, 1503631575
