Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
By (author): "Sudhir Venkatesh"
ISBN0674023552
ISBN139780674023550
AsinOff the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Original titleOff the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
In this revelatory book, Sudhir 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 untax