Class Differentiation and the Informal Sector in Amman, Jordan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8967178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Miles Doan (Florida State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-38 |
| Publication date | 1992-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743800001409 |
| OpenAlex | W2112416695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
Studies of economic activities among the urban poor in various parts of the world have found more variation in the so-called informal sector than they had expected. The urban poor had typically been thought of as a kind of “reserve army” for the formal sector, an underclass at the margins of survival. Even early work that recognized the links between the formal and informal sectors lumped them together as a single class that ranked below all the others. The tendency to regard workers in the informal sector as members of an underclass masked the tremendous variations among them and between informal sectors in different places
Class (philosophy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic sector · Economics · Economy · Informal sector · Private sector · Sociology · Underclass · Work (physics · Engineering · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Labor, Class, and the International System
The Palestinian Refugees in Jordan 1948–1957
The Sociology of the Palestinians
The Myth of Marginality
The Crossroads of Class and Gender
The Economic Development of Jordan
The Myth of Marginality
Jordan
The informal economy
The Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, 1948-1957
Class Analysis and the Dialectics of Modernization in the Middle East
Theatres of Accumulation
Casual Work and Poverty in Third World Cities
The Geography of the Third World
Modern 'Amman
Marx and the End of Orientalism
Theatres of Accumulation
Labor, Class, and the International System
The Crossroads of Class and Gender
Marx and the End of Orientalism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2016 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |