Title The city is the factory : new solidarities and spatial strategies in an urban age / edited by Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis

Published Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents The street labor movement / Kathleen Dunn -- Day labor agencies and the logic and landscape of neoliberal poverty management / Gretchen Purser -- Economic development for whom? : retail, neoliberal urbanism, and the "Fight for 15" / Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis -- Context, coalitions, and organizing : immigrant labor rights advocacy in San Francisco and Houston / Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson -- A bridge too far : industrial gentrification and the dynamics of sacrifice in New York City / Melissa Checker -- Radical ruptures : crisis organizing and the spatial politics of uneven redevelopment / Miriam Greenberg -- The other low-carbon protagonists : poor people's movements and climate politics in a global city / Daniel Aldana Cohen -- The space of speech / Lize Mogel -- Spatial politics and urban borders : a study of Buenos Aires / Alejandro Grimson -- From workers in the city to workers cities? / Andrew Herod 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"--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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Labor movement -- United States Urban poor -- United States Working class -- United States. Land use, Urban -- United States BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography. Labor movement Land use, Urban Urban poor Working class United States Form Electronic book Author Greenberg, Miriam, 1970- editor. Lewis, Penny (Penny W.), editor. Container of (work): Dunn, Kathleen (Sociologist). Street labor movement LC no. 2016048885 ISBN 9781501708053 1501708058 9781501708060 1501708066

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