Off the Books

The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

  • 2007 C. Wright Mills Award, sponsored by The Society for the Study of Social Problems

Prologue

1. Living Underground

2. Home at Work

3. The Entrepreneur

4. The Street Hustler

5. The Preacher

6. Our Gang

7. As the Shady World Turns

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Off the Books
  • A photo of the author

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University.