Urban livelihoods, employment and gender

Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 210-231

  Chant, Sylvia ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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References (6)

1. Chant, S. with Craske, N. 2003 Gender in Latin America. Latin America Bureau/Rutgers University Press, London/New Brunswick, NJ. This book provides an overview of changing patterns of gender in Latin America in the past three decades, with dedicated reviews of themes that are directly relevant to this chapterThese include Chapter 3 on gender; poverty and social movements, Chapter 7 on gender; families and households, and Chapter 8 on gender and employment.
2. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) 2002 Social panorama of Latin America 2000-2001. Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, Santiago de Chile. An accessible and comprehensive overview of economic and social trends in Latin America in the last decade of the twentieth century, particularly as they relate to poverty, income inequality employment and unemployment, social expenditure and shifts in family life and organization. The analysis is complemented by several tables, boxes, figures and appendices and is downloadable in PDF format from www.cepal.org.
3. Portes, A., Dore-Cabral, C. and Landolt, P. (eds) 1997 The urban Caribbean: transition to a new global economy John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. An interesting collection of case studies on a wide range of countries in Central America and the Caribbean, including Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. These are bound together by the underlying question of whether the urban informal sector is an arena of growth and entrepreneurship, or one of survival.
4. Rakodi, C. with Lloyd-Jones, T. (eds) 2002 Urban livelihoods: a people-centred approach to reducing poverty. Earthscan, London. This book consists of a series of interdisciplinary contributions on key issues in current livelihoods debates. Examination is made of the value of a focus onlivelihoods in analysing urban poverty and in guiding policy and programme formulation in relation to development challenges such as employment, education and people's living environments.
5. Roberts, B. 1995 The making of citizens: cities of peasants revisited. Edward Arnold, London. This book is a substantially revised version of Roberts' classic text Cities of peasants, published by Edward Arnold in 1978. The main focus is Latin America, but the analysis is strongly informed by a wider global perspective. Of particular relevance to the present chapter are Roberts' discussions in Chapter 5, which looks at employment in cities, and Chapter 7, which covers various aspects of household livelihoods.
6. Thomas, J. 1995 Surviving in the city: the urban informal sector in Latin America. Pluto, London. This is possibly the most thorough account of the nature and behaviour of the informal sector of employment in Latin American cities in recent years. It traces the history of conceptualizations of informal sector activity and its wide-ranging characteristics. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of informal employment in the wake of urban growth, the debt crisis and economic restructuring in the late twentieth century There is also discussion of the longer-term prospects for the urban informal sector in Latin America, and of the implications of different policy interventions.