Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City - Chicago Scholarship
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 (CBOs) 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 ... More
Nicole P. Marwell, author
Chapter One Formal Organizations and the Problem of Social Order in the City
Chapter Two A Place to Live
Chapter Three A Voice in Politics
Chapter Four A Path to Work
Chapter Five Organizations and Participation
Appendix: Notes on Research Design and Method