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Sudhir Venkatesh: Floating City: Hustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York [2013] hardback CLASS or as a walking blondeAfter his insider's study of Chicago crack gangs electrified the academy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade immersed in New York's underbelly, observing the call girls, drug dealers, prostitutes and other strivers that make up this booming underground economy. Amidst the trust funder cocktail parties, midtown strip clubs, and immigrant run sex shops, he discovers a surprisingly fluid and dynamic social world one that can