Informal and Illicit Entrepreneurs: Fighting for a Place in the Neoliberal Economic Order

Anthropology of Work Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 19-25

  Galemba, Rebecca B ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Illicit networks; Informal economy; Legality; Neoliberalism; Shadow economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953082490     PISSN: 0883024X     EISSN: 15481417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1417.2008.00010.x     Document Type: Article

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