Favors on the Margin
Underground Markets and Everyday Survival
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Beschreibung
At the edge of the official market, a favor could become food, fuel, or a dangerous debt.
When wages failed, currency vanished, or official shops came up empty, people built other routes to food, fuel, clothing, and work. This book examines the improvised economies that grew in the spaces between regulation and need. It traces street trading, household networks, cross-border exchange, and black markets without treating them as a single world. By attending to the people who negotiated price, risk, and trust, it reveals how informal exchange could be both a refuge from hardship and a source of unequal power.
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Hannah Brooks
Hannah Brooks is an English-language author known for warm, insightful writing that explores relationships, self-discovery, and the emotional complexities of modern life. Her work blends accessible storytelling with thoughtful reflection, creating books that resonate through themes of resilience, personal growth, and human connection.
Themen in »Favors on the Margin«
black market history informal trade networks survival economies street vending history wartime exchange underground commerce