Higglers in Kingston [electronic resource] : women's informal work in Jamaica / Winnifred Brown-Glaude.

By:

Brown-Glaude, Winnifred R, 1966-

Contributor(s):

Project Muse

Material type: Text

TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xi, 225 p. :) illContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780826517678

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

331.4 22

LOC classification:

HF5459.J25 B76 2011

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Contents:

Introduction: Assessing the "whole of informality" -- Intersectionality and the politics of embodiment -- Higglering : a woman's domain? -- "Baits of Satan?" : representations of Sunday/Negro markets and higgerling in the Jamaican economy from slavery to independence -- "Natural rebels" or just plain nuisances? : representations of higglers in the Jamaican economy from slavery to independence -- Higgler/ICI/business woman : what's in a name? -- Dirty and dis/eased : bodies, public space and Afro-Jamaican higglers -- Conclusion: Understanding the nuances of informality.

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