List of Tables List of Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction Substantive Considerations Theoretical Issues Outline of Chapters
1. Cultural Formations and the Zona Franca
The Caboclo Formation
The Urban Formation
The Zona Franca
Migration and Urban Growth
2. The Labor Process: Firms, Enterprises, and Economic Sectors
Hegemonic Industries
Peripheral Industries
The Commercial and Public Sectors
The Informal Sector
3. Economic Sectors and the Social Differentiation of Workers
The Social Selectivity of Economic Sectors
Status Inequalities
Intergenerational Patterns of Mobility
As Workers View Their Employment
Living Work and Economic Sectors
4. The Economy of Households
Household Composition and Income
Single and Multiple Income Households
Food Consumption
Consumer Durables
5. Domestic Organization and Household Economy
Households and Family Units
Status Identities and the Economic Division of Labor
The Domain of Domestic Relations
6. Manaus in Transition: Bairros and Vizinhanças
Material Dimensions of Urbanization
Institutional Changes and Popular Culture
Bairros and Vizinhanças
7. Manaus: A Theoretical View of a Microcosm
Modes of Production in the Amazon
The Marginalization of Producers
The Marginalization of Consumers
The Empirical Construction of Marginality
Global Processes, Microcontexts, and Patterns of Change
Notes
Bibliography
Index