Tamar Diana Wilson is Research Affiliate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. "The Ladrillera"

2. Approaches to the "Informal Sector" and to the Brickmakers of Mexicali

3. Petty Commodity Producers in the Informal Sector: The Peasant Adaptation of the Brickmakers in Popular, Mexicali

4. "The Old Brickmaker, 1993"

5. "Invisible" Women and Children Workers on the Mexicali Brickyards

6. "Mexicali Brickmaker's Wife"

7. Gender Considerations among the Brickmakers

8. "Brickmaker's Daughter, Brickmaker's Wife"

9. The Heterogeneity of Subsidies to the Capitalist System: The Case of the Garbage Pickers

10. Are the Brickmakers Counterhegemonic?

11. "Don Rafael's Desire"

Epilogue

Appendix: Scott Cook and I: Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Approaches to Brickmaking

Notes
References
Index