“…In the early 1980s, population growth rates slowed with deindustrialization and the liberalization of the Mexican economy (Garza, 1999;Graizbord, Rowland, and Aguilar, 2003). Between 1980 and 1993, the metropolitan zone lost over 385,000 industrial jobs (Connolly, 2003) and residents turned to more precarious forms of work, including street vending (Davis, 2013;Garza, 1999;Graizbord, Rowland, and Aguilar, 2003). Informal work now accounts for an estimated 57 percent of all employment in Mexico City (Suárez, Murata, and Delgado, 2016: 252), making it fundamental to livelihoods in the city.…”