John C Cross
Biographic Data
| ID | 6105673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John C Cross |
| GIVEN NAMES | John C |
| FAMILY NAME | Cross |
| SIGNATURE | CROSS J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Place, Identity, and Deviance
Cities invariably have "gray" areas where formal policing and regulatory reach is relatively ineffective. By focusing on individuals or groups traditional theories of deviance fail to account for community-level processes that create local alternative norms that contribute to behavior seen as deviant by outsiders. By combining theories of space with issues of identity construction and deviance, we analyze an inner-city neighborhood in Mexico City…
Expading dual labour market theory
Attempts to theorize the relationship between the informal and the illegal sectors of the economy. States that there are significant behavioural similarities. Proposes an emergent paradigm based on dual labour market theory to explain the similarites and differences in order to guide future research in each area. Applies the theory to the production and marketing of crack cocaine and shows how the model helps us to understand issues of exploitati…
Passing the buck
Extends the notion of informality into the area of illegality, looking at how illegal crack vendors in New York use informality to reduce and pass risk to others. Focuses on the techniques used to avoid detection and arrest and the methods of placing risk of imprisonment on smaller, lower‐income dealers. Suggests that this process of exploitation only makes sense when seen in the broader context of inequality in US society where some have nothing…
Street vendors, and postmodernity
Street vendors, modernity and postmodernity: conflict and compromise in the global economy explores street vending within the context of the shift from modernism to postmodernism, suggesting that the former implied crackdowns on the trade because of the ideals of public order and control whilst the latter is more open to such methods. Questions whether this new approach brings fresh dilemmas for the informal sector. Proffers the idea that the pol…
Informal Politics
As economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970s and 1980s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. Though this phenomenon has previously been analyzed from a strictly economic point of view, this book looks at street vending in the largest city in the world, Mexico City, as a political process. Employing a street-level analysis based on intensive participant observation, with interviews, archival researc…
Co-optation, Competition, and Resistance
The growth of the urban informal economy in Latin America has generally been attributed to the failure of economic policy initiatives to stimulate sufficient job growth in the region to match the rapid increase in the urban labor supply. As import substitution, protectionism, and state ownership reached their limit in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a series of economic crises halted and even reversed the trend toward steadily increasing living s…
Entrepreneurship & Exploitation
One of the most important debates within the literature on the Urban Informal Economy (UIE) focuses on whether self‐employed individuals operating informally are “entrepreneurs” who should be aided by development planners or “disguised workers” who are super‐exploited by firms within the formal economy. While some authors have argued that the (UIE) may include both, there is little agreement on how to distinguish “entrepreneurs” from “disguised w…
Debilitando al clientelismo
El desalojo de los vendedores ambulantes
John C. Cross, Marcela Pineda Camacho, El desalojo de los vendedores ambulantes: paralelismos históricos en la ciudad de México, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1996), pp. 95-115
Post & Mail
Thank you, Laurence Urdang, for your astute observation {Post & Mail, 737, Jan 94). Some of the terms in the glossary of "The Queen's English" (ET35, Jul 93) echo the bitter cynicism of Gay life in the 1950's and '60's. Expressions like "Let me make myself perfectly queer" (1980's) or "I'm not Gay, but my boyfriend is " (1990'
Boekbesprekings/Bookreviews
Street vendors, and postmodernity
Street vendors, modernity and postmodernity: conflict and compromise in the global economy explores street vending within the context of the shift from modernism to postmodernism, suggesting that the former implied crackdowns on the trade because of the ideals of public order and control whilst the latter is more open to such methods. Questions whether this new approach brings fresh dilemmas for the informal sector. Proffers the idea that the pol…
Co-optation, Competition, and Resistance
The growth of the urban informal economy in Latin America has generally been attributed to the failure of economic policy initiatives to stimulate sufficient job growth in the region to match the rapid increase in the urban labor supply. As import substitution, protectionism, and state ownership reached their limit in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a series of economic crises halted and even reversed the trend toward steadily increasing living s…
Place, Identity, and Deviance
Cities invariably have "gray" areas where formal policing and regulatory reach is relatively ineffective. By focusing on individuals or groups traditional theories of deviance fail to account for community-level processes that create local alternative norms that contribute to behavior seen as deviant by outsiders. By combining theories of space with issues of identity construction and deviance, we analyze an inner-city neighborhood in Mexico City…
Entrepreneurship & Exploitation
One of the most important debates within the literature on the Urban Informal Economy (UIE) focuses on whether self‐employed individuals operating informally are “entrepreneurs” who should be aided by development planners or “disguised workers” who are super‐exploited by firms within the formal economy. While some authors have argued that the (UIE) may include both, there is little agreement on how to distinguish “entrepreneurs” from “disguised w…
Expading dual labour market theory
Attempts to theorize the relationship between the informal and the illegal sectors of the economy. States that there are significant behavioural similarities. Proposes an emergent paradigm based on dual labour market theory to explain the similarites and differences in order to guide future research in each area. Applies the theory to the production and marketing of crack cocaine and shows how the model helps us to understand issues of exploitati…
Passing the buck
Extends the notion of informality into the area of illegality, looking at how illegal crack vendors in New York use informality to reduce and pass risk to others. Focuses on the techniques used to avoid detection and arrest and the methods of placing risk of imprisonment on smaller, lower‐income dealers. Suggests that this process of exploitation only makes sense when seen in the broader context of inequality in US society where some have nothing…
El desalojo de los vendedores ambulantes
John C. Cross, Marcela Pineda Camacho, El desalojo de los vendedores ambulantes: paralelismos históricos en la ciudad de México, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1996), pp. 95-115
Debilitando al clientelismo
Boekbesprekings/Bookreviews
Post & Mail
Thank you, Laurence Urdang, for your astute observation {Post & Mail, 737, Jan 94). Some of the terms in the glossary of "The Queen's English" (ET35, Jul 93) echo the bitter cynicism of Gay life in the 1950's and '60's. Expressions like "Let me make myself perfectly queer" (1980's) or "I'm not Gay, but my boyfriend is " (1990'
El desalojo de los vendedores ambulantes
John C. Cross, Marcela Pineda Camacho, El desalojo de los vendedores ambulantes: paralelismos históricos en la ciudad de México, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1996), pp. 95-115
Entrepreneurship & Exploitation
One of the most important debates within the literature on the Urban Informal Economy (UIE) focuses on whether self‐employed individuals operating informally are “entrepreneurs” who should be aided by development planners or “disguised workers” who are super‐exploited by firms within the formal economy. While some authors have argued that the (UIE) may include both, there is little agreement on how to distinguish “entrepreneurs” from “disguised w…
Debilitando al clientelismo
Informal Politics
As economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970s and 1980s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. Though this phenomenon has previously been analyzed from a strictly economic point of view, this book looks at street vending in the largest city in the world, Mexico City, as a political process. Employing a street-level analysis based on intensive participant observation, with interviews, archival researc…
Co-optation, Competition, and Resistance
The growth of the urban informal economy in Latin America has generally been attributed to the failure of economic policy initiatives to stimulate sufficient job growth in the region to match the rapid increase in the urban labor supply. As import substitution, protectionism, and state ownership reached their limit in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a series of economic crises halted and even reversed the trend toward steadily increasing living s…
Expading dual labour market theory
Attempts to theorize the relationship between the informal and the illegal sectors of the economy. States that there are significant behavioural similarities. Proposes an emergent paradigm based on dual labour market theory to explain the similarites and differences in order to guide future research in each area. Applies the theory to the production and marketing of crack cocaine and shows how the model helps us to understand issues of exploitati…
Passing the buck
Extends the notion of informality into the area of illegality, looking at how illegal crack vendors in New York use informality to reduce and pass risk to others. Focuses on the techniques used to avoid detection and arrest and the methods of placing risk of imprisonment on smaller, lower‐income dealers. Suggests that this process of exploitation only makes sense when seen in the broader context of inequality in US society where some have nothing…
Street vendors, and postmodernity
Street vendors, modernity and postmodernity: conflict and compromise in the global economy explores street vending within the context of the shift from modernism to postmodernism, suggesting that the former implied crackdowns on the trade because of the ideals of public order and control whilst the latter is more open to such methods. Questions whether this new approach brings fresh dilemmas for the informal sector. Proffers the idea that the pol…
Place, Identity, and Deviance
Cities invariably have "gray" areas where formal policing and regulatory reach is relatively ineffective. By focusing on individuals or groups traditional theories of deviance fail to account for community-level processes that create local alternative norms that contribute to behavior seen as deviant by outsiders. By combining theories of space with issues of identity construction and deviance, we analyze an inner-city neighborhood in Mexico City…
Taxation and Compliance Studies (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Informal sector (3 works) · Market economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)