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Trade Review
"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
"Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study."
* American Journal of Sociology *

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations

1. Introduction
2. Becoming a Frutero
3. Managing Risk on the Street
4. Personal and Professional Entanglements
5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis
6. Dos Mundos Transformed
7. Conclusion

Afterword
Acknowledgments
Appendix: A Personal Note on Research
Notes
References
Index

Fruteros Street Vending Illegality and Ethnic

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 19/05/2020
      ISBN13: 9780520319851, 978-0520319851
      ISBN10: 0520319850
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Population and demography Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
      "Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study."
      * American Journal of Sociology *

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations

      1. Introduction
      2. Becoming a Frutero
      3. Managing Risk on the Street
      4. Personal and Professional Entanglements
      5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis
      6. Dos Mundos Transformed
      7. Conclusion

      Afterword
      Acknowledgments
      Appendix: A Personal Note on Research
      Notes
      References
      Index

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