The servant class city : urban revitalization versus the working poor in San Diego
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The servant class city : urban revitalization versus the working poor in San Diego
（Globalization and community, v. 25）
University of Minnesota Press, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index
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内容説明
San Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story, with blight and poverty replaced by high-rises and jobs. But David J. Karjanen shows that the much-touted job opportunities for poor people have been concentrated in low-paying service work as the cost of living in San Diego has soared. The Servant Class City documents how, over a period of three decades, San Diego's urban transformation actually eroded the economic standing of the city's working poor.
Karjanen demonstrates that urban policy in San Diego, which has been devoted to increasing tourism, has fostered the creation of jobs that do not actually provide either livable wages or paths to upward mobility. Marshaling a wealth of heretofore uncollected data, he challenges the presumption that decades-long stagnation of job mobility in the united states is a result of insufficient worker training or a "skills mismatch," or is attributable to various personal qualities of the urban poor.
Karjanen interweaves profiles of people with a compelling presentation of data. Each chapter addresses a significant topic: hospitality industry jobs, retail work, informal employment, "fringe banking," and economic barriers to mobility. In revealing the true story of the "poverty traps" that are associated with low-wage jobs in the service economy, The Servant Class City complicates the rosy picture of life in an American tourist boomtown.
目次
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Changing Urban Fortunes
1. Subsidizing Capital and Expanding Low-Wage Work
2. A Good Job Is Hard to Find
Part II. Working in the Servant Class
3. Working in the Hospitality Industry
4. Working Retail in the Inner City
5. Working On, Off, and Around the Books
Part III. Living in the Servant-Class Economy
6. Do-It-Yourself Safety Nets
7. Asset Poverty and the High Cost of Fringe Banking
8. The Low-Income Trap: Barriers to Economic Mobility
Conclusion: An Expanding Servant Class or a Pathway to Prosperity?
Appendix A. The Communities
Appendix B. Servant Class Occupations in San Diego
Appendix C. Survey Data and Methodology Chronology
Bibliography
Index
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