Nonprofit neighborhoods : an urban history of inequality and the American state / Claire Dunning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunning, Claire, author.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neighborhood assistance programs--Massachusetts--Boston.

Neighborhood assistance programs.

Federal aid to nonprofit organizations--Massachusetts--Boston.

Federal aid to nonprofit organizations.

Federal aid to community development--Massachusetts--Boston.

Federal aid to community development.

Community development--Massachusetts--Boston.

Community development.

Urban poor--Services for--Massachusetts--Boston.

Urban poor.

Segregation--Massachusetts--Boston.

Segregation.

Urban poor--Services for.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Physical Description:

viii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Claire Dunning's study focuses on the relationship between state power and nonprofit organizations in the postwar era and on the effects their dynamics have had on urban neighborhoods. She reveals how public-private partnerships positioned nonprofits as surprisingly powerful intermediaries between the state and individuals. These nonprofits took the lead in combatting urban poverty-and yet, counterintuitively, the intended devolution and decentralization of power from the state to the community level made the welfare state both larger and more impersonal and financialized. Thus, even as participation in antipoverty programs increased, the structural forces behind urban poverty became only more entrenched"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The city

The grantees

The residents

The bureaucrats

The lenders

The partners

The coalitions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226819907

0226819906

9780226819891

0226819892

OCLC:

1274200288