Invisible Factories

Lauren Benton , formerly Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Developing Areas at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now consults on projects related to employment and education.

• List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART I 1. Industrial Restructuring and the Informal Economy2. Unregulated Labor in Democratic Spain PART II 3. High-Tech Cottage Industry? Productive Decentralization in Madrid's Electronics Industry4. Sweating for Export: "Underground" Labor in the Spanish Shoe Industry PART III 5. At Home in the Informal Sector: Gender and Industrial Outwork6. The Rise of the Workers' Movement and the Politics of Production PART IV 7. National Pacts and Alliances: The Political Response to Informalization8. Some Reflections on the Informal Sector and Capitalist Development Notes Bibliography Index

"This work represents a major contribution to the study of processual and comparative economics. It is also a very important addition to our knowledge and understanding of the political and economic problems faced by Spain and by Spanish institutions in the post-Franco era. I am very impressed by the quality of the research, including the work done in the field and the models utilized to shed light on polity and economy in Spain. This is unquestionably a book of superior scholarship. Polished, organized, logically consistent." — Oriol Pi-Sunyer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst