Bargaining for Brooklyn : community organizations in the entrepreneurial city / Nicole P. Marwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marwell, Nicole P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development--New York (State)--New York.

Community development.

Community organization--New York (State)--New York.

Community organization.

Urban renewal--New York (State)--New York--Citizen participation.

Urban renewal.

Sociology, Urban--New York (State)--New York.

Sociology, Urban.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960's and 1970's, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations that sought to bring direly needed resources back to the inner city. Today there are tens of thousands of these CBOs-private nonprofit groups that work diligently within tight budgets to give assistance and opportunity to our most vulnerable citizens by providing services such as housing, child care, and legal aid. Through ethnographic fieldwork at eight CBOs in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick, Nicole P. Marwell discovered that the complex and contentious relationships these groups form with larger economic and political institutions outside the neighborhood have a huge and unexamined impact on the lives of the poor. Most studies of urban poverty focus on individuals or families, but Bargaining for Brooklyn widens the lens, examining the organizations whose actions and decisions collectively drive urban life.

Contents:

Formal organizations and the problem of social order in the city

A place to live

A voice in politics

A path to work

Organizations and participation

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612070044

9781282070042

1282070045

9780226509082

0226509087

OCLC:

646810196