Higglers in Kingston: Women's Informal Work in Jamaica

by Winnifred Brown-Glaude

PDF, 2011

Publication

Vanderbilt University Press (2011), 256 pages

ISBN

082651765X / 9780826517654

Notes

CONTENTS
Introduction: Assessing the "whole of informality"
Intersectionality and the politics of embodiment
Higglering : a woman's domain?
"Baits of Satan?" : representations of Sunday/Negro markets and higgerling in the Jamaican economy from slavery to independence
"Natural rebels" or just plain nuisances? : representations of higglers in the Jamaican economy from slavery to independence
Higgler/ICI/business woman : what's in a name?
Dirty and dis/eased : bodies, public space and Afro-Jamaican higglers
Conclusion: Understanding the nuances of informality.
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