urban community

Working in inner-city ministry is one of the most challenging things one could do in North America. The inner city and urban community are plagued with many difficulties. Poverty, crime, unemployment, despair, social injustice, and living with the effects of sin are all part of …

Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

by Ringel, Felix

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How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunif…

This study addresses the determinants of women's economic activity in three low-income communities in Amman, Jordan. In the Arab Middle East, where women's work for remuneration is a relatively recent phenomenon, labor statistics only measure female labor force in the formal sec…