Urban Case Studies

• Lewis, Oscar. (1961). The Children of Sanchez, Autobiography of a Mexican Family. New York: Random House.
• Lewis, Oscar. (1959). Five Families; Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty. New York: Basic Books.
• Lomnitz, Larissa Adler de. (1977). Networks and Marginality: Life in a Mexican Shantytown. New York: Academic Press.

SOUTH AMERICA

Buenos Aires

• Guy, Donna J. (1991). Sex & Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Lima

• Collier, David. (1976). Squatters and Oligarchs: Authoritarian Rule and Policy Change in Peru. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Lobo, Susan. (1982). A House of My Own: Social Organization in the Squatter Settlements of Lima, Peru. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Northeast Brazil

• Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. (1992). Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rio de Janeiro

• Gay, Robert. (1994). Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Perlman, Janice E. (1976). The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Santiago

• Winn, Peter. (1986). Weavers of Revolution: the Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sao Paulo

• Jesus, Carolina Maria de. (1962). Child of the Dark; the Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus. New York: Dutton.
• Shirley, Robert W. (1971). The End of a Tradition; Culture Change and Development in the Municipio of Cunha, Sao Paulo, Brazil. New York: Columbia University Press.

London

• Fried, Albert, and Richard M. Elman. (1968). Charles Booth's London: A Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century. New York: Pantheon Books.
• London, Jack. (1980). People of the Abyss. London: J. Simon.
• Mayhew, Henry. (1968). London Labour and the London Poor. New York: Dover Publications.
• Orwell, George. (1960). Down and Out in Paris and London. London: Secker & Warburg.

Manchester

• Roberts, Robert. (1971). The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century. Manchester: The University Press

York

• Roundtree, B.S. (1922). Poverty: A Study of Town Life. London: Longmans, Green and Co.

AFRICA

Cairo

• Early, Evelyn A. (1993). Baldi Women of Cairo: Playing with an Egg and a Stone. Boulder: Rienner Publishers.
• Fakhouri, Hani. (1987). Continuity and Change in an Egyptian Community, 2nd Edition. Waveland Press.
• Macleod, Arlene Elowe. (1991). Accommodating Protext: Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Wikan, Unni. (1996). Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-Made Destinies in Cairo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Wikan, Unni. (1980). Life among the Poor in Cairo. New York: Tavistock Publications.

Johannesburg

• Barrett, Jane. (1985). South African Women on the move. London: Zed Books.
• Mandy, Nigel. (1984). A City Divided: Johannesburg and Soweto. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• Sikakane, Joyce. (1977). A Window on Soweto. London: International Defence & Aid Fund.

Lagos

• Baker, Pauline H. (1974). Urbanization and Political Change: The Politics of Lagos, 1917- 1967. Berkely: University of California Press.
• Cole, Patrick. (1975). Modern and Traditional Elites in the Politics of Lagos. London: Cambridge University Press.

Lusaka

• Hansen, Karen Tranberg. (1997). Keeping House in Lusaka. New York, Columbia University Press.

Windhoek

• Pendleton, Wade C. (1974). Katutura: A Place Where We Stay. San Diego San Diego State University Press. Reprinted 1994 by Macmillan.

INDIA

Bombay

• Wersch, Hubert W. M. Van. (1992). Bombay Textile Strike, 1982-83. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Calcutta

• Lapierre, Dominique. (1985). The City of Joy. Garden City: Doubleday.

Delhi

• Pandit, Vijay Laxmi. (1984, c1983). Elites and Urban Politics: A Case Study of Delhi. New Delhi: Inter-India Publications.
• Vinze, Medha Dubhashi. (1987). Women Entrepreneurs in India: A Socio-Economic Study of Delhi, 1975-85. Delhi: Mittal Publications.

Madras

• Caplan, Patricia. (1985). Class & Gender in India: Women and their Organizations in a South Indian City. London: Tavistock Publications.

SOUTH ASIA

Karachi

• Streefland, Pieter H. (1979). The Sweepers of Slaughterhouse: Conflict and Survival in a Karachi Neighbourhood. Assen: Van Gorcum.

EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

Bangkok

• Odzer, Cleo. (1994). Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World. New York: Blue Moon Books: Arcade Publications: Distributed by Little, Brown and Co.
• Pasuk, Phongpaichit. (1982). From Peasant Girls to Bangkok Masseuses. Geneva: International Labour Office.
• Thorbek, Susanne. (1987). Voices from the City: Women of Bangkok. London: Zed Books.

Jakarta

• Murray, Alison J. (1991). No Money No Honey: A Study of Street Traders and Prostitutes in Jakarta. Singapore: Oxford University Press.

Tokoyo

• Hane, Mikiso. (1982). Peasants, rebels, and outcastes: the underside of modern Japan. New York: Pantheon.
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