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Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn's Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, this book is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-1978. Now updated with a new introduction to address the cha...

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Main Author: Susser, Ida
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Edition:Updated ed.
Subjects:
Municipal services > New York (State) > New York.
Finance, Public > New York (State) > New York.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Economic conditions > Case studies.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > Case studies.
Services municipaux > New York (État) > New York.
Finances publiques > New York (État) > New York.
Economic history
Finance, Public
Municipal services
Social conditions
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn
Electronic books.
Case studies
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Norman Street Revisited: Claiming a Right to New York City; 1. Introduction; 2. A Changing Neighborhood; 3. A Changing Workplace and Its Consequences; 4. The Welfare System: Interaction Between Officials and Clients; 5. The Welfare System: Regulations and the Life of a Welfare Recipient; 6. Landlord-Tenant Relations; 7. Cooperation and Conflict in a Block Association; 8. Making Things Work; 9. Kinship, Friendship, and Support; 10. Save the Firehouse!; 11. The Sources of Political Control; 12. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N
  • OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Pseudonyms; B; D; F; G; I; J; M; N; P; S; W