Social Reproduction and the City. Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York, Paperback - Simon Black

The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. Soci...

Influenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us see the role of child services as the prevention of severe phy...

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Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkNumber of pages: 350Collection: Women's Studies QuarterlyPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elisabeth AndersonIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 384Collection: Princeto...

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Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book AwardThe growth of mass incarceration ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

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In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher...

From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passag...

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City of God, the latest installment in Beverly Swerling's gripping saga of old New York, takes readers to Manhattan's clamorous streets as the nati...

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outc...

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