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Boing Boinghttp://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/422894385/tales-from-the-under.html [Boing Boing] The story, titled "Everything Must Go," was told by Columbia University sociology professor Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, who had gotten to know Thomas while writing a book called Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, .

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The Residenthttp://www.theresident.com/2008/10/letting-go/ [The Resident] Letting Go: In fact, K.L’s book reminded me of the wonderful British 1990 film “Truly Madly Deeply.” In it, Nina, played by Juliet Stevenson, has lost her husband, while in “Baby Steps” Lynda’s husband died in an automobile accident  before the novel begins. Now, the point film and novel make is this: If  Nina and Lynda are to live full, happy lives, they must let go of their deceased loved ones and stop mourning.

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OhMyGov! News with a pulse[OhMyGov! News with a pulse] Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets: readers will be intrigued by the underground economy which dominates life in the projects. Though Venkatesh is unable to veil his arrogance in his writing, he succeeds at writing a book that is both comical and humbling as he reflects on his time spent in the projects in this humanizing account about poverty in America.

orgtheory.nethttp://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/venkatesh-seminar-a-underground-society-of-organizations/ [orgtheory.net] venkatesh seminar - an underground society of organizations: in fact things probably would get worse, as the undergound urban economy will probably be absorbed. Which does not mean that it will be the end of it (after all if there is one thing that we learn is how resilient the urban poor social system is), but that it will be one more burden in the already tough enough daily job to make ends meet.

Afternoon Magazine on WILL-AMhttp://www.will.uiuc.edu/media/aftmag061127.mp3 [Afternoon Magazine on WILL-AM] OFF THE BOOKS: THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY OF THE URBAN POOR: Guest: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies and Director of Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University (Archive from 11/27/06)

H - Social Sciences (Economics, Commerce, Sociology, ...) - Recent Acquisitions - Concordia Libraries[H - Social Sciences (Economics, Commerce, Sociology, ...) - Recent Acquisitions - Concordia Libraries] Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor / Sudhir ...: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

NARMER'S PAGEhttp://narmer.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/of-note/ [NARMER'S PAGE] Of Note: Sudhir Venkatesh is a Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, whose reasearch is rooted in ethnographic investigation of urban neighborhoods. He is an award-winning author of several books, most recently

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