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The Urbanization of the Third World.

1989; Wiley; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1973416

1728-4457

Michael P. Todaro, Josef Gugler,

Economic Zones and Regional Development

Introduction. Part 1 The urban transition in the Third World: Urban growth in developing countries. Part 2 The neglect and exploitation of the rural masses: Let us pay heed to the peasant why poor people stay poor. Part 3 The urban labour market and migration: The migrant response in Central Peru overurbanization reconsidered migration and urban surplus labour rural contract labour in urban Chinese industry. Part 4 Housing for the urban masses: Land for the rich, land for the poor approaches to low-income housing in the Third World. Part 5 Making a living in the city: Working in the streets how women and men get by the changing fortunes of a Jakarta street-trader. Part 6 The social organization of urban dwellers: Becoming an urbanite the social and economic organization of a Mexican shanty town social control and rehabilitation in urban China. Part 7 Patterns of political integration and conflict: The politics of conformity in Mexico City political bosses and strong-arm retainers in the Sunni Muslim quarters of Beirut the politics of ethnicity in contemporary African towns squatters and the state in Latin America urban labour movements under authoritarian capitalism in the southern cone and Brazil, 1964-1983 the urban character of contemporary revolutions.