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Book Cover for: From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present, Kim Moody

From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present

Kim Moody

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New York is a city of wealth & deprivation, where the abundance of high-rise office space & luxury housing belies a poverty rate of nearly twice the national average. In this book, Kim Moody argues that the city's business elite has tilted the political structure of toward an agenda that puts real estate development ahead of human needs.

Book Details

  • Publisher: New Press
  • Publish Date: May 1st, 2007
  • Pages: 340
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.42in - 5.74in - 1.24in - 1.19lb
  • EAN: 9781595580887
  • Categories: • Sociology - Urban

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Praise for this book

This is a very important study that deserves a wide audience."
Kim Moody is one of the leading intellectuals of the labor movement." -- Robin D.G. Kelley
ÝA¨n ambitious attempt to analyze the fast-changing economic and political conditions facing labor on a global scale.
ÝR¨aises serious questions for both labor and management in the United States about the social contract in the workplaces of an increasingly globalized economy."