Call for Papers: International Journal of
Sociology and Social Policy for
a series of special editions on the informal sector.(provided by OPENAIR-MARKET NET - send us your abstracts, proposals, and research summaries to johncross@prodigy.net)
Call for Papers: International Journal of
Sociology and Social Policy for
a series of special editions on the informal sector.
Research workshops:
Results of October,
1999 workshop on women homework in Turkey. Simel Esim, International Center for Research
on Women. Washington, D.C. Click here for official summary.
PAPERS available on this website
Informal Cyberspace - John Cross's papers on street vendors, the
informal sector and small business in Mexico and Egypt
Cross, John (1995). Taking Street Vendors off the Streets: Historical Parallels in Mexico City. Paper. American University in Cairo.
Eastwood, Carolyn (1995). The Demise of an urban market: does it matter? who cares? Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society. March.
Gordon, Gary (1997) "Mexico City's 'War of the Side Walks..." A historical perspective on the conflict between street vendors and city officials in Mexico City.
Lasso, Pablo Series of articles on informal commerce in Latin America and Mexico (in Spanish)
Locklin, Lawrence grassrootsfreemarket-papers related to the informal sector.
Morales, Alfonso, et.al. (1995). The Value of Benefits of a Public Street Market: The Case of Maxwell Street. Economic Development Quarterly, November, pp. 304-330. (Includes Responses by Rhoda Halperin and Vim Wiewel, and Rejoinder by authors.)
Price, Curtis Fragmented Economies and Arabbers
Todd, Amy Concerning the regulation of farmers' markets in the U.S.
Why New York City Is Arresting Artists by Robert Lederman
BOOKS
Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City, by John C. Cross. Stanford University Press. 1998.
Spitzer, Theodore M. , et. al. (1994). Public Markets and Community Revitalization. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute.
Abundant Harvest- Excerpts from book on Fresno's Vineyard Farmers Market by Sharon Young
See book reviews for more
ABSTRACTS AND SUMMARIES:
Research (with photos) of a Street Market
in Jakarta, Indonesia,
by Nina Suwarno..
"AKÇAKOCA PEASANT MARKET AS A PUBLIC SPACE AND
MARKET WOMEN",
summary of PhD Dissertation by Hanife Aliefendioglu, Anthropology
Department, Hacettepe University, Turkey.
Newspaper article on Street Vending in Nogales, Mexico, which quotes Terri Place, Graduate Student at Arizona State University.
Research notes on street vending in New York. Well--some research notes at least of a small chinatown market shut down by the authorities.. No longer "on-going".
Hot Peppers and Parking Lot Peaches: Evaluating Farmers' Markets in Low Income Communities from The Community Food Security Coalition
Street Vendors in Public Spaces in Historic
Downtown Mexico City
(in English and Spanish) by Mauricio Ibarra Deras
Street trading in Durban, South Africa by Stein Inge Nesvag, MA student in the Department of Economic History at the University of Natal, Durban in South Africa.
Fieldwork on the regulation of marketplaces in Oaxaca, Mexico by Amy Todd, PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Ethnographic Study of Maxwell Street Community by Dan M. Parker, MA student in the Department of Sociology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL USA
From Market to Market: The Restructuring of Chicago's Maxwell Street Market by Elise Martel, graduate student in the Department of Sociology, U. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
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