Javier Auyero is Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao. He is the author of
Persistence Strategies
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Published:February 2025
Taking a granular view on subsistence strategies, chapter 3 closely examines the family’s ways of making ends meet. In the task of making ends meet, most residents are hard-working bricoleurs. At the root of this incessant bricolage are all sorts of informal networks at work. The poor rely on precarious and highly exploitative (formal and informal) jobs. They also rely on patronage and protest, along with always inadequate state aid, and intense participation in networks of reciprocal exchange that sometimes include illicit activities.
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