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Gaber, John Albert.

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Manhattan's 14th Street vendors market: An analysis of the informal economy.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Manhattan's 14th Street vendors market: An analysis of the informal economy./
Author:	Gaber, John Albert.
Description:	318 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-07, Section: A, page: 2762.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-07A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9333765

Manhattan's 14th Street vendors market: An analysis of the informal economy.
Gaber, John Albert.

Manhattan's 14th Street vendors market: An analysis of the informal economy. - 318 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-07, Section: A, page: 2762.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1993.

This dissertation analyzes the illegal street peddling of licit goods on Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, New York City. Fourteenth Street is a popular location for street vendors from all over the City to sell their wares in an open-air bazaar fashion--a vendors market. However, not everyone likes the vendors operating on Fourteenth Street, or in New York City. Within the last twenty years, increasing opposition by local "rent paying" merchants and the ensuing New York City regulations that clamped-down on illegal vending, have made legal street peddling in the City almost impossible. This has forced many would-be legitimate vendors to work illegally and in the informal sector. The 14th Street vendors market is one example where people make their living and purchase needed resources in the informal economy.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Manhattan's 14th Street vendors market: An analysis of the informal economy.
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520 $a This dissertation analyzes the illegal street peddling of licit goods on Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, New York City. Fourteenth Street is a popular location for street vendors from all over the City to sell their wares in an open-air bazaar fashion--a vendors market. However, not everyone likes the vendors operating on Fourteenth Street, or in New York City. Within the last twenty years, increasing opposition by local "rent paying" merchants and the ensuing New York City regulations that clamped-down on illegal vending, have made legal street peddling in the City almost impossible. This has forced many would-be legitimate vendors to work illegally and in the informal sector. The 14th Street vendors market is one example where people make their living and purchase needed resources in the informal economy.
520 $a Since the early 1980s, theoretical, empirical, and ethnographic research on the informal economy has provided a clearer understanding of informal activity as a distinct phenomenon. In analyzing the informal economy, many researchers have paid attention to finding evidence that will answer three important questions. These questions are: "how do regulations define informal activity?" "what is the economic relationship of the informal economy to the formal economy?" and, "how is labor reproduced within the informal economy?"
520 $a The theoretical goal of this dissertation is to improve and "rebuild" on the body of theory as it is challenged by my research of informal peddling on Fourteenth Street. The research in this dissertation was organized according to a complementary mixed-method case study of the 14th Street vendors market. My primary data came from nine months of participant observation field research on Fourteenth Street.
520 $a Among the main findings of the research are the following. First, outdated vendor ordinances have made it almost impossible for vendors to peddle legally in New York City. Second, "street peddling" is a blanket term. A typology of the types of vendor activity I observed on Fourteenth Street is provided. Third, vendors help meet the demand for affordable merchandise by the growing low-income population. And finally, informal peddling is one way that people make a living.
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