Norman Street : poverty and politics in an urban neighborhood
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Norman Street : poverty and politics in an urban neighborhood
Oxford University Press, c2012
Updated ed
- : pbk
- : hardcover
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Bibliography: p. 267-280
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Norman Street is the first serious examination of a scenario that appears likely to be played out again and again as federal budget policies result in reduced services for urban areas across the country. Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn's Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, the book is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-78. Now updated with a new
introduction to address the changes and events of the thirty years since the book's original publication, its lessons continue to demonstrate the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives.
Relating local events to national policy, Susser deals directly with issues and problems that face industrial cities nationwide: ethnic and race relations are analyzed within the context of community organization and local politics; the impact of landlord/tenant relations, housing discrimination, and red-lining are examined; and the effects on the urban poor of gentrification are documented. Since neighborhood issues are often of primary concern to women, much of the book concerns the role of
women as community organizers and their integration of this role with domestic responsibilities.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Updated Edition
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Changing Neighborhood
- 3. A Changing Workplace and Its Consequences
- 4. The Welfare System: Interaction Between Officials and Clients
- 5. The Welfare System: Regulations and the Life of a Welfare Recipient
- 6. Landlord-Tenant Relations
- 7. Cooperation and Conflict in a Block Association
- 8. Making Things Work
- 9. Kinship, Friendship, and Support
- 10. Save the Firehouse!
- 11. The Sources of Political Control
- 12. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index of Pseudonyms
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