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Cities, poverty, and development : urbanization in the Third World
- Title
- Cities, poverty, and development : urbanization in the Third World / by Alan Gilbert and Josef Gugler.
- Author
- Gilbert, Alan, 1944-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982, ©1981.
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- Additional Authors
- Gugler, Josef.
- Description
- viii, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- In a squatter neighbourhood of Nairobi (Kenya), sexual division of labour in the informal sector is examined. Five categories of neighbourhood iinformal sector activity were analysed: the entertainment industry, rental of habitat, shop-keeping, small-scale production or services and hawking. Capital investment and costs and incomes were registered. Women owner-operators were predominant in beer-brewing and prostitution, habitat rental and vegetable retailing sectors. A correlation between female barrenness and business success was noted. It is concluded that women sell in the iinformal urban market place the skills they normally practice in the home. It is recommended that urban iinformal sector studies emphasise gender issues.
- Alternative Title
- Urbanization in the Third World
- Subject
- Urbanization > Developing countries
- Cities and towns > Developing countries > Case studies
- Housing > Developing countries
- Poor > Developing countries
- Sociology, Urban
- urban sociology
- Cities and towns
- Housing
- Poor
- Sociology, Urban
- Urbanization
- Verstädterung
- Urbanisatie
- Armoede
- social implication
- economic implication
- poverty
- urbanization
- trend
- population growth
- urban population
- urban development
- regional disparity
- rural migration
- labour market
- employment
- informal economy
- living conditions
- social problem
- political aspect
- development planning
- statistical table
- Urbanisation > Pays en voie de développement
- pays en voie de développement > urbanisation
- conséquences sociales
- conséquences économiques
- pauvreté
- urbanisation
- tendance
- croissance démographique
- population urbaine
- développement urbain
- disparité régionale
- migration rurale
- marché du travail
- emploi
- économie informelle
- conditions de vie
- problème social
- aspect politique
- planification du développement
- tableau statistique
- consecuencias sociales
- consecuencias económicas
- pobreza
- urbanización
- tendencia
- crecimiento demográfico
- población urbana
- desarrollo urbano
- desigualdad regional
- migración rural
- mercado de trabajo
- empleo
- economía informal
- condiciones de vida
- problema social
- aspecto político
- planificación del desarrollo
- cuadros estadísticos
- Developing countries
- Entwicklungsländer
- developing countries
- pays en développement
- países en desarrollo
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- bibliography.
- bibliographie.
- bibliografía.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [201]-235.
- Contents
- 1. Urban development in a world system -- 2. Urban agglomeration and regional disparities -- 3. The rural-urban interface and migration -- 4. Employment in the city -- 5. The housing of the urban poor -- 6. Urban ways of life -- 7. Political responses to poverty -- 8. Urban and regional systems: A suitable case for treatment?
- ISBN
- 0198740832
- 9780198740834
- 0198740840
- 9780198740841
- 0194424219
- 9780194424219
- LCCN
- 82006297
- OCLC
- ocm08345624
- 8345624
- SCSB-49043
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library