Bargaining for Brooklyn: community organizations in the entrepreneurial city
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Main Author: Marwell, Nicole P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index
Formal organizations and the problem of social order in the city -- A place to live -- A voice in politics -- A path to work -- Organizations and participation -- Conclusion
When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations that sought to bring direly needed resources back to the inner city. Today there are tens of thousands of these CBOs--private nonprofit groups that work diligently within tight budgets to give assistance and opportunity to our most vulnerable citizens by providing services such as housing, child care, and legal aid. Through ethnographic fieldwo
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
ISBN:0226509087
9780226509082

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