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First published in 1996, this title analyses the management skills of those with least resources, the women of the urban poor, and finds that there is an abundance of evidence on the high levels of managerial competence within this group. It is information which has largely been hidden from history and is corrected in this study.
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Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction and Outline of Central Themes 2. Rural Skills in the Urban Occupational Repertoire: A Critique of ‘Urbanist’ Orthodoxy 3. The Role of Urban Social Networks in the Organisation of Rural Employment 4. Organising the Household Finances: The Contribution of Women’s Rural Wages to Urban Budgeting 5. A Festival for Labour: Redressing the Damage of Urban Living 6. Social Networks and the Transmission of Occupational Skills 7. Reproduction of the Urban Neighbourhood in a Rural Setting: The Commercial Dimension 8. Strengthening the ‘Dangerous Classes’ Stereotype: The Role of the Religious Missions 9. The Employers’ Perspective: Securing a Reliable Source of Labour 10. Conclusion: Collective Skill – The End of a Tradition, the End of a Community? Bibliography. Index.
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First published in 1996, this title analyses the management skills of those with least resources, the women of the urban poor, and finds that there is an abundance of evidence on the high levels of managerial competence within this group. It is information which has largely been hidden from history and is corrected in this study.
