A rural place and a rural people -- Building factories in the country -- Rise of the rural-industrial workers -- Prosperous, independent rural-industrial workers -- Work and identity in the factory and at home -- Movements for equality in a time of industrial restructuring -- Co…
Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class - and what that m…
Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class - and what that m…
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 …
In the second edition of his essential book-which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008-Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "cons…