Cracks in the pavement : social change and resilience in poor neighborhoods / Martín Sánchez-Jankowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez-Jankowski, Martín, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban poor--United States--Case studies.

Urban poor.

Inner cities--United States--Case studies.

Inner cities.

Urban poor--Social networks--New York (State)--New York.

Urban poor--Social networks--California--Los Angeles.

Social change--New York (State)--New York.

Social change.

Social change--California--Los Angeles.

Social networks.

California--Los Angeles.

New York (State)--New York.

California.

New York (State).

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 487 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]

Contents:

A theory of life, social change, and preservation in poor neighborhoods

Give me shelter : competing agendas for life in public housing

A living refuge : social change and preservation in the housing project

Provisions for life : making the mom-and-pop store a neighborhood institution

Taking care of business : social change and preservation in the mom-and-pop store

Not just a clip joint : hair shops and the institution of grooming

Life on the edge : social change and preservation in the hair shop

The gang's all here : fathering a bastard institution

All in the family : mothering the gang as a bastard institution

Whither the neighborhood high school? Contending roles and functions

School works : the dynamics of two production lines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-466) and index.

ISBN:

9780520256446

0520256441

9780520256750

0520256751

OCLC:

181424148