What is it about?
Capitalism is not only shaping formal workers' identities but also informal workers' one. This article shows how the way in which informal workers understand their work and themselves is strongly rooted in the culture of what some authors have named new capitalism.
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Why is it important?
Several researches have dealt with the culture of work and specially, with the culture of work under capitalism. This article is interesting because it opens a new vein addressing informality and questioning some beliefs about informal workers' motivations and ways of doing.
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This article shows in deep how culture and identity are involved in our everyday work, being it formal or informal. Plus, the ethnographic approach this article takes helps very much in this exploration.
Dr. Rosario Palacios
Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo Urbano
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This page is a summary of: The New Identities of Street Vendors in Santiago, Chile, Space and Culture, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1206331216643778.
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