Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina

Author:   Aaron Schneider
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   27
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9781517901660


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   27 March 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Through interviewsand surveys, Aaron Schneider contrasts city sectors prioritized during post-Katrinarecovery with neglected sectors. The result is a fine-grained view of the waylabor markets are structured to the advantage of elites, emphasizing how dualdevelopment produces wealth for the few while distributing poverty andexclusion to the many on the basis of race, gender, and ethnicity.

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Author:   Aaron Schneider
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   27
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9781517901660


ISBN 10:   1517901669
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   27 March 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Dual Development, Segmented Labor Markets, and Urban Regimes 2. The Rise of a Globally Oriented Elite in a Fragmented City 3. Satellite Governance, Public Finance, and Networks of Power 4. The Post-Katrina Political Transition 5. Globalized Construction and Ethnic Segmentation 6. Racial and Gender Segmentation in Tourism and Services 7. Deindustrialization versus Joined-up Workplace and Community Struggle Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Satellite Entities Notes Bibliography Index

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Aaron Schneider provides a compelling-and heretofore untold-story of how power and poverty in New Orleans were restructured after Hurricane Katrina. A must-read, Renew Orleans? is an epic account of how a globally-oriented elite secured political power amidst the chaos, attempted to rebuild the city in their image, and met fierce resistance by working people. -Steve Striffler, coeditor of Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans Aaron Schneider makes a unique contribution in situating New Orleans's political development, both pre- and post-Katrina, in relation to the city's evolving political economy. One of the book's distinctive contributions is that it connects the racial and cultural discourses through which local politics has been articulated to that evolving political economy and competition among governing elites. His analysis is deep, rich, and concrete; it makes an important intervention in the urban politics and political economy field and should be a touchstone for all subsequent scholarship on New Orleans. -Adolph Reed, Jr., University of Pennsylvania Aaron Schneider's Renew Orleans? gives us an unprecedented account of labor conditions in post-Katrina New Orleans and a critical examination of elite power in the city. Drawing on a wealth of quantitative and historical material, Schneider captures the experiences of the Crescent City's laboring classes, whose plight has too often been neglected in popular celebrations of recovery. Renew Orleans? tells the story of those who are fighting for a more just New Orleans through unionization, community struggles, and sector-wide models of worker organizing. -Cedric Johnson, author of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans


Aaron Schneider provides a compelling--and heretofore untold--story of how power and poverty in New Orleans were restructured after Hurricane Katrina. A must-read, Renew Orleans? is an epic account of how a globally-oriented elite secured political power amidst the chaos, attempted to rebuild the city in their image, and met fierce resistance by working people. --Steve Striffler, coeditor of Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans Aaron Schneider makes a unique contribution in situating New Orleans's political development, both pre- and post-Katrina, in relation to the city's evolving political economy. One of the book's distinctive contributions is that it connects the racial and cultural discourses through which local politics has been articulated to that evolving political economy and competition among governing elites. His analysis is deep, rich, and concrete; it makes an important intervention in the urban politics and political economy field and should be a touchstone for all subsequent scholarship on New Orleans. --Adolph Reed, Jr., University of Pennsylvania Aaron Schneider's Renew Orleans? gives us an unprecedented account of labor conditions in post-Katrina New Orleans and a critical examination of elite power in the city. Drawing on a wealth of quantitative and historical material, Schneider captures the experiences of the Crescent City's laboring classes, whose plight has too often been neglected in popular celebrations of recovery. Renew Orleans? tells the story of those who are fighting for a more just New Orleans through unionization, community struggles, and sector-wide models of worker organizing. --Cedric Johnson, author of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans


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Aaron Schneider is Leo Block Chair and associate professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Relations at the University of Denver. He is author of State-Building and Tax Regimes in Central America.

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