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10%OFFMiriam Greenberg (Ed.) - The City Is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age - 9781501705540 - V9781501705540
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The City Is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age

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Description for The City Is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age Paperback. Editor(s): Greenberg, Miriam; Lewis, Penny. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21, 9 black & white halftones, 8 black & white line drawings, 1 maps, 2 tables, 1 charts. BIC Classification: KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

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' ... Read more

Contributors
Melissa 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 Chicago
Shannon 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

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501705540
SKU
V9781501705540
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Miriam Greenberg (Ed.)
Miriam Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World and coauthor of Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans. Penny Lewis is Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for ... Read more

Reviews for The City Is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age
"The City Is the Factory brings together and updates the interdisciplinary scholarly research on urban politics, critical geography, neoliberalism, and social and labor movements. The editors and contributors examine and theorize about how contemporary social and labor activists form alliances that respond to neoliberal urban politics in novel ways and how they relate to urban spaces through collective action."
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