Bargaining for Brooklyn : Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City /

When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations that sought to bring direly needed resources...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marwell, Nicole P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
city, urban, new york, east coast, america, american, communal, community, culture, cultural, entrepreneur, sociology, middle class, classes, classism, classist, status, 1960s, 1970s, moving, migration, government, investor, investment, capital, neighborhood, decline, resources, cbo, nonprofit, housing, child care, legal, help, ethnography, ethnographic, fieldwork, economic, political.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • CHAPTER ONE. Formal Organizations and the Problem of Social Order in the City
  • CHAPTER TWO. A Place to Live
  • CHAPTER THREE. A Voice in Politics
  • CHAPTER FOUR. A Path to Work
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Organizations and Participation
  • CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • APPENDIX. Notes on Research Design and Method
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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