{"product_id":"the-city-is-the-factory-new-solidarities-and-spatial-strategies-in-an-urban-age-paperback","title":"The City Is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiriam Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePenny Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrban 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 \u003ci\u003eThe City Is the Factory \u003c\/i\u003eargue, 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' movements; and the sense of possibility and actual leverage afforded by local politics and the tactical use of urban space. Thus, \"the city\"--from the town square to the banlieu--is becoming like the factory of old: a site of production and profit-making as well as new forms of solidarity, resistance, and social reimagining.We see examples of the city as factory in new place-based political alliances, as workers and the unemployed find common cause with \"right to the city\" struggles. Demands for jobs with justice are linked with demands for the urban commons--from affordable housing to a healthy environment, from immigrant rights to \"urban citizenship\" and the right to streets free from both violence and racially biased policing. The case studies and essays in \u003ci\u003eThe City Is the Factory\u003c\/i\u003e provide descriptions and analysis of the form, substance, limits, and possibilities of these timely struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eMelissa 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\u003cbr\u003eShannon 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiriam Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBranding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCrisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans. \u003c\/i\u003ePenny Lewis is Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eHardhats, Hippies and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe City Is the Factory New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age\u003c\/i\u003e, both from Cornell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431096500402,"sku":"9781501705540","price":75.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e7f6b58e7a9ecc950fcee10796252ed4.webp?v=1778584111","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-city-is-the-factory-new-solidarities-and-spatial-strategies-in-an-urban-age-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}