Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil.
Santa Efigênia in São Paulo is an important Latin American hub for buying and selling electronics. This article draws on long-term fieldwork to discuss repair training in the neighbourhood. While scholars have looked at formal and informal educational spaces, this article looks at a new kind of inst...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 640 - 658 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2024
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