Suchergebnisse

Artisans and the informal sector in Ecuador -- Informals, entrepreneurs and artisans -- Artisans in Quito, 1975-2015 -- Neoliberalism in Ecuador -- Choosing informality -- Formal-informal relations : backward linkages -- Customers, clients and formal markets -- Family firms, homeworkers and home-based enterprises -- Social networks and the theft of social capital -- Artisans and the state -- Microfinance and micro-firm development in context -- Artisan perspectives on bank credit -- Main issues and future prospects -- Conclusions : theory, ideology and evidence.

This book looks back over the last 40 years of change and development in Ecuador, showing how macro level changes have impacted families and workplaces at the local level. Traditionally a dependent economy reliant on agricultural export, the impact of neoliberalism and new sources of income from oil has transformed the informal and artisanal sector in Ecuador. Exploring these dynamics using a combination of micro and macro analyses, this book demonstrates how the social relations of the sector are connected to the wider social, economic and political systems in which they operate. The book analyses the links between society and the wider economy, the relationship between different types of microenterprises and their customers, their connection to the formal sector, the importance of social networks and social capital, and the relevance of finance capital in microenterprise development. Overall, the analysis investigates how artisans, entrepreneurs and family-based enterprises seek to protect their interests when faced with the impacts of neoliberalism and globalisation. This longitudinal study will be of considerable interest to researchers of development studies, economics, sociology, human geography, anthropology, and Latin American studies.

It is through the organisation of labour that class interests and class antagonisms become manifest. A major problem with recent debates about the informal sector, petty commodity producers or the marginalised labour force is that their structural positions in the economy have not been translated into class analysis, whereby the social position of the sector of the labour force under discussion is clearly identified in relation to other groups in society. As a result, conflicting interests are not fully discussed and the capacity of the urban poor for organising and working towards the amelioration of their condition is ignored.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- PART I The Setting -- 1 GLASGOW AND ITS EAST END* -- 2 CONTINUITY, CHANGE AND CONTRADICTION IN URBAN POLICY -- PART II The GEAR Project -- 3 URBAN RENEWAL AND THE ORIGINS OF GEAR -- 4 JOBS AND INCOMES -- 5 PUBLIC HOUSING -- 6 REHABILITATING OLDER HOUSING -- 7 NEW OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSING -- 8 SOME ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 9 ACCESS TO THE HEALTH SERVICES -- 10 LEISURE AND RECREATION -- 11 TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS -- 12 THE MANAGEMENT OF GEAR -- PART III Wider Perspectives -- 13 LESSONS FOR LOCAL ECONOMIC POLICY -- 14 A STRATEGY FOR EDUCATION -- 15 CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Mientras no existen dudas de que ciertos sectores de la poblacion han ganado con las politicas de ajuste neoliberal y que la prolongada crisis no ha afectado a todos de igual manera, se carece de evidencias de que se haya hecho ningun bien a los pequenos manufactureros no capitalistas en conjunto: aquel grupo de la economia que los neoliberales apoyaron como micro-empresarios y el futuro del capitalismo. En el presente trabajo los autores tratan de brindar una reflexion sobre los cambios operados en las logicas productivas de los pequenos productores de Quito en un periodo de 20 anos. (Ecuad Debate/DÜI)