The city is the factory : new solidarities and spatial strategies in an urban age /

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 is itself part of a b...

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Other Authors: Greenberg, Miriam, 1970- (Editor), Lewis, Penny (Editor), Dunn, Kathleen (Sociologist)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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, coalitions, and organizing : immigrant labor rights advocacy in San Francisco and Houston / Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson
  • A bridge too far : industrial gentrification and the dynamics of sacrifice in New York City / Melissa Checker
  • Radical ruptures : crisis organizing and the spatial politics of uneven redevelopment / Miriam Greenberg
  • The other low-carbon protagonists : poor people's movements and climate politics in a global city / Daniel Aldana Cohen
  • The space of speech / Lize Mogel
  • Spatial politics and urban borders : a study of Buenos Aires / Alejandro Grimson
  • From workers in the city to workers cities? / Andrew Herod.