Repas ambulants Informalité urbaine et modernité industrielle à la frontière nord du Mexique |
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Authors: | Hilda Garcí a |
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Affiliation: | School of public health, university of Michigan, 611 Church Street, Room 362, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA |
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Abstract: | The relation between urban informality and industrial modernity is analyzed by examining very small businesses specialized in selling prepared food to workers in the transnational manufacturing plants (maquiladoras) along Mexico’s northern border. In the urban setting along this border, the model of an export-driven industrialization is compatible with premodern aspects of the subsistence economy. In fact, it depends on subsistence activities for its very existence. As a consequence, informal services have emerged that help stabilize the work force needed by these plants. A survey of the owners of these microbusinesses has provided data for analyzing the organization and operation of this commerce and its relation with the family as a social unit. — Special issue: Latin America. |
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Keywords: | É conomie informelle Maquiladoras Mexique Petit commerce |
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