Norman Street

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-536731-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Susser, Ida

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College at the City University of New York Graduate Center.