Based on ethnographic research conducted over several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai. Here, it is revealed...

El mercado como unidad de análisis en las ciencias sociales / José Javier Niño Martínez -- ¡Pásele, joven!, ¡pruébele!, ¿qué le damos, qué le servimos? / Sergio Vega Bolaños -- Género y comercio en vía pública de la Ciudad de México / Norma Angélica Gómez Méndez -- Prácticas...

"This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast...