The City Is the Factory : New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age / Miriam Greenberg, Penny Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenberg, Miriam, 1970- editor.

Lewis, Penny, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use, Urban--United States.

Land use, Urban.

Working class--United States.

Working class.

Urban poor--United States.

Urban poor.

Labor movement--United States.

Labor movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 broader shift in the primary locations and targets of popular protest from the workplace to the city. This shift is due to an array of intersecting developments: the concentration of people, profit, and social inequality in growing urban areas; the attacks on and precarity faced by unions and workers' movements; and the sense of possibility and actual leverage afforded by local politics and the tactical use of urban space. Thus, "the city"-from the town square to the banlieu-is becoming like the factory of old: a site of production and profit-making as well as new forms of solidarity, resistance, and social reimagining.We see examples of the city as factory in new place-based political alliances, as workers and the unemployed find common cause with "right to the city" struggles. Demands for jobs with justice are linked with demands for the urban commons-from affordable housing to a healthy environment, from immigrant rights to "urban citizenship" and the right to streets free from both violence and racially biased policing. The case studies and essays in The City Is the Factory provide descriptions and analysis of the form, substance, limits, and possibilities of these timely struggles.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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Greenberg, Miriam / Lewis, Penny

1. The Street Labor Movement / Dunn, Kathleen

2. Day Labor Agencies and the Logic and Landscape of Neoliberal Poverty Management / Purser, Gretchen

3. Economic Development for Whom? / Luce, Stephanie / Lewis, Penny

4. Context, Coalitions, and Organizing / Graauw, Els de / Gleeson, Shannon

5. A Bridge Too Far / Checker, Melissa

6. Radical Ruptures / Greenberg, Miriam

7. The Other Low-Carbon Protagonists / Cohen, Daniel Aldana

8. The Space of Speech / Mogel, Lize

9. Spatial Politics and Urban Borders / Grimson, Alejandro

10. From Workers in the City to Workers' Cities? / Herod, Andrew

Notes

References

About the Editors and Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781501705540

1501705547

9781501708053

1501708058

OCLC:

961098735