Wilson explores how the current loss of blue-collar jobs has crucially affected American society. He discusses the effects of the "suburbanization" of employment, which has excluded the black urban poor who remain isolated in neighborhoods of concentrated unemployment, neighborh…
"In his long-awaited new book, our foremost authority on race and poverty challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of…
Wilson explores how the current loss of blue-collar jobs has crucially affected American society. He discusses the effects of the "suburbanization" of employment, which has excluded the black urban poor who remain isolated in neighborhoods of concentrated unemployment, neighborh…
The street labor movement / Kathleen Dunn -- Day labor agencies and the logic and landscape of neoliberal poverty management / Gretchen Purser -- Economic development for whom? : retail, neoliberal urbanism, and the "Fight for 15" / Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis -- Context, coa…
The City is the Factory -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From the Factory to the City and Back Again -- 1. The Street Labor Movement -- 2. Day Labor Agencies and the Logic and Landscape of Neoliberal Poverty Management -- 3. Economic Development for Who…
"Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square…
Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square …
Alongside debates over rising inequalities, the stubbornness of urban poverty, globally, has emerged as a major academic and policy concern. Urban poverty policy positions are typically framed by paradigms of basic services and welfare. In the backdrop of Bangalore's evolution i…
Introduction -- Welfare and Work: State Autonomy Revisited -- Urban Poverty and Informal Work -- A Political Economy Overview: Karnataka and Bangalore -- New Slums: Migration, Livelihoods and Living -- Old Slums -- Impact of Slum Housing Policies: Bangalore's New Ghettoes -- Wom…
"As India's Silicon Valley, at the core of Bangalore's core economic dynamism is the export of Information Technology and related industries, surrounded by multinational banking, finance, venture capital, start-ups, real estate, and the concomitant appearance of luxury concepts …
"As India's Silicon Valley, at the core of Bangalore's core economic dynamism is the export of Information Technology and related industries, surrounded by multinational banking, finance, venture capital, start-ups, real estate, and the concomitant appearance of luxury concepts …
"As India's Silicon Valley, at the core of Bangalore's core economic dynamism is the export of Information Technology and related industries, surrounded by multinational banking, finance, venture capital, start-ups, real estate, and the concomitant appearance of luxury concepts …
Pobreza, desigualdad y exclusión social en la ciudad del siglo XXI
by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México., Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Cordera, Rolando, Ramírez Kuri, Patricia, Ziccardi, Alicia, Lomelí, Leonardo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México., Seminario Universitario de la Cuestión Social
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Pobreza, desigualdad y exclusión social en la ciudad del siglo XXI
by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México., Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Cordera, Rolando, Ramírez Kuri, Patricia, Ziccardi, Alicia, Lomelí, Leonardo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México., Seminario Universitario de la Cuestión Social
fromSociología y política (Siglo Veintiuno Editores)