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040			_aCITU LRAC _beng
082			_2330
100			_aVenkatesh, Sudhir Alladi _eauthor
245			_aOff the books : _bthe underground economy of the urban poor / _cSudhir Alladi Venkatesh
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2006].
300			_axix, 426 pages ; _c 22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_a Prologue -- Living underground -- Home at work -- The entrepreneur -- The street hustler -- The preacher -- Our gang -- As the shady world turns.
520			_aSudhir 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.
526			_a300-399
650		0	_a Informal sector (Economics) _zIllinois _z Chicago.
650		0	_a Poor _zIllinois _z Chicago.
942			_2ddc _cBK _01