Self-employment in Cuba: between informality and entrepreneurship – the case of shoe manufacturing

Yailenis Mulet Concepción

Third World Quarterly, 2016, vol. 37, issue 9, 1713-1729

Abstract: This article discusses the phenomenon of self-employment in Cuba from three perspectives: its conceptualisation, its links with informality and the challenges to its growth. First, it reviews the characteristics of self-employment in Cuba, in comparison with available theory and with various studies of informality carried out in other countries. Second, it documents the dimensions of informality and Cuba’s black market economy through the study of a specific sector of the independent labour force: shoe producers. Third, it considers the main challenges for the growth of self-employment in Cuba, as illustrated by the case of Cuban shoemakers, and draws some lessons that should improve the situation of this sector, taking into account different international studies.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1189300

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