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OverviewThis volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries. Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization. A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barry Bluestone , Mary Huff StevensonPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation Imprint: Russell Sage Foundation Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.860kg ISBN: 9780871541253ISBN 10: 0871541254 Pages: 461 Publication Date: 01 March 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBARRY BLUESTONE is the Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. MARY HUFF STEVENSON is associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and senior fellow at its McCormack Institute of Public Affairs. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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