Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization, John Arena, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Parastou Saberi
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Coercive Force ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Black Residents ◽  
The Way

AbstractInDriven from New Orleans, John Arena focuses on the contradictory role of nonprofits in facilitating the consensual removal of poor, black residents from inner-city spaces as the result of the privatisation and demolition of public housing. His account is constructive for delving into the on-the-ground struggles around public housing and the complexities of urban politics, and, more importantly, for situating the housing question at the heart of working-class struggles. His emphasis on how the gradual construction of consent was imperative in paving the way for the sudden application of coercive force in the aftermath of Katrina is also a welcome correction to arguments that tend to see the post-Katrina policies as the cause célèbre of the striking and rapid reconfiguration of New Orleans. Arena, however, falls short of providing a historicised analysis of urban politics and the politics of nonprofits.

Women's Work: The Role of Grandparents in Inter-Generational Transfers

1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Material Support ◽  
Residential Proximity ◽  
City Area ◽  
Financial Organisation

This article surveys the role of grandparents in providing a continuing level of material support in 61 households with dependent children in an inner city area. It concludes that assistance is structured by gender, income level, household financial organisation, residential proximity, need and ideology. In terms of the provision of continuing support to households with young children, grandparents are important but grandmothers give more assistance than grandfathers and they direct it where it is most needed. It is important for grandmothers to have access to paid work. The ideology of assistance is differentiated by class. In professional families the married couple is the unit of transfer but for working class families the solidarity of female relatives, in particular, of daughters and mothers and mothers-in-law, is more important.

The Work of Verse

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-62
Author(s):  
Kirstie Blair
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Occasional Verse ◽  
Opening Section ◽  
The Way

The first chapter provides an introduction to, and overview of, ‘occasional’ verse and performed verse, and considers the functions of newspaper poetry columns. Its broad remit underpins the detailed studies in the later chapters, and sets up the arguments about the work done by Scottish working-class poetry that re-occur in these. It contains an opening section discussing why working-class poetry came to seem so prevalent in Scotland, and how it became considered vital to Scottish cultural identity. This is followed by subsections on the role of occasional verse in commemorating and celebrating particular events or social occasions, the rise of newspaper poetry columns, and the way in which these columns fostered poetic communities.

Reply to Professor Katznelson

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Terrence J. Mcdonald
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
American Political Development ◽  
Political Machine ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Way

Professor Katznelson's essay deserves a lengthy reply, but space limitations require me to keep my response brief. I strongly disagree with the way that he has characterized the thrust of my essay, the point of my other work, and the implications of recent work by other urban historians. But rather than hash over these misinterpretations, I will focus instead on the issue between us that I think has the most relevance for future work on the role of urban politics in American political development: the utility of a focus on the urban political machine.

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