The City Is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age
284The City Is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age
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ContributorsMelissa Checker, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Daniel Aldana Cohen, University of Pennsylvania; Els de Graauw, Baruch College, City University of New York; Kathleen Dunn, Loyola University ChicagoShannon Gleeson, Cornell University; Miriam Greenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz; Alejandro Grimson, Universidad de San Martín (Argentina); Andrew Herod, University of Georgia; Penny Lewis, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York; Stephanie Luce, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York; Lize Mogel, artist and coeditor of An Atlas of Radical Cartography; Gretchen Purser, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781501705533 |
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Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Publication date: | 06/06/2017 |
Pages: | 284 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Introduction: From the Factory to the City and Back Again, Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis1. The Street Labor Movement, Kathleen Dunn2. Day Labor Agencies and the Logic and Landscape of Neoliberal Poverty Management, Gretchen Purser3. Economic Development for Whom? Retail, Neoliberal Urbanism, and the "Fight for 15," Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis4. Context, Coalitions, and Organizing: Immigrant Labor Rights Advocacy in San Francisco and Houston, Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson5. A Bridge Too Far: Industrial Gentrification and the Dynamics of Sacrifice in New York City, Melissa Checker6. Radical Ruptures: Crisis Organizing and the Spatial Politics of Uneven Redevelopment, Miriam Greenberg7. The Other Low-Carbon Protagonists: Poor People's Movements and Climate Politics in São Paulo, Daniel Aldana Cohen8. The Space of Speech, Lize Mogel9. Spatial Politics and Urban Borders: A Study of Buenos Aires, Alejandro Grimson10. From Workers in the City to Workers’ Cities?, Andrew HerodWhat People are Saying About This
The City Is the Factory brings together and updates the interdisciplinary scholarly research on urban politics, critical geography, neoliberalism, and social and labor movements. The editors and contributors examine and theorize about how contemporary social and labor activists form alliances that respond to neoliberal urban politics in novel ways and how they relate to urban spaces through collective action.
This book makes clear the importance of community- or city-based unionism and social movements. The future of organizing is going to have to take into account the centrality of the urban in capital accumulation processes, because it is through such processes that exploitation and oppression often work. The city is now indeed the factory.