Manufacturing Against the Odds: Small-Scale Producers in an Andean City

"In Third World countires, small-scale manufacturers supply a large part of the nation's consumer goods, often meeting needs that larger operations or foreign imports cannot.  Enlivened by the oral histories of women and men of rural and urban backgrounds, this book depicts the struggle of artisan and small-scale manufacturing enterprises in La Paz during the political and economic crises of the 1980's in Bolivia."  ~from the back cover of Manufacturing Against the Odds