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OverviewSan Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story: blight and poverty replaced by high rises and jobs. But David J. Karjanen shows that the much-touted job opportunities for poor people have been concentrated in low-paying service work as the cost of living in San Diego has soared. ""The Servant Class City"" documents how, over a period of three decades, San Diego s urban transformation actually eroded the economic standing of the city s working poor.Karjanen demonstrates that urban policy in San Diego, which has been devoted to increasing tourism, has fostered the creation of jobs that do not actually provide either livable wages or paths to upward mobility. Marshaling a wealth of heretofore uncollected data, he challenges the presumption that decades-long stagnation of job mobility in the U.S. is a result of insufficient worker training or a skills mismatch or is attributable to various personal qualities of the urban poor.Karjanen interweaves profiles of people with a compelling presentation of data. Each chapter addresses a significant topic: hospitality industry jobs, retail work, informal employment, fringe banking, and economic barriers to mobility. In revealing the true story of the poverty traps that are associated with low-wage jobs in the service economy, ""The Servant Class City ""complicates the rosy picture of life in an American tourist boomtown."" Full Product DetailsAuthor: David J. KarjanenPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Volume: 25 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780816694624ISBN 10: 0816694621 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 15 July 2016 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Changing Urban Fortunes 1. Subsidizing Capital and Expanding Low-Wage Work 2. A Good Job Is Hard to Find Part II. Working in the Servant Class 3. Working in the Hospitality Industry 4. Working Retail in the Inner City 5. Working On, Off, and Around the Books Part III. Living in the Servant-Class Economy 6. Do-It-Yourself Safety Nets 7. Asset Poverty and the High Cost of Fringe Banking 8. The Low-Income Trap: Barriers to Economic Mobility Conclusion: An Expanding Servant Class or a Pathway to Prosperity? Appendix A. The Communities Appendix B. Servant Class Occupations in San Diego Appendix C. Survey Data and Methodology Chronology Bibliography IndexReviewsWritten in an accessible style, this is a cautionary tale of how urban revitalization bypasses low-income communities, constraining the economic mobility of the working poor and increasing their reliance on shady financial services and other predatory institutions.-Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago The Servant Class City is a remarkable book. There are few other books that document growing urban inequality's mechanisms in such a fine-grained way, with both qualitative and quantitative evidence. -Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin Madison - The books strong point is its grounding in the real lives of people. -Planning Magazine This valuable case study does an excellent job of demonstrating the complex reality the hardworking poor face in neoliberal capitalism. -CHOICE Written in an accessible style, this is a cautionary tale of how urban revitalization bypasses low-income communities, constraining the economic mobility of the working poor and increasing their reliance on shady financial services and other predatory institutions. Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago The Servant Class City is a remarkable book. There are few other books that document growing urban inequality's mechanisms in such a fine-grained way, with both qualitative and quantitative evidence. Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin Madison The book's strong point is its grounding in the real lives of people. -Planning Magazine This valuable case study does an excellent job of demonstrating the complex reality the hardworking poor face in neoliberal capitalism. -CHOICE Karjanen expertly illustrates the ineffectiveness of conventional revitalization initiatives devised to reduce poverty. -H-Net There is much to like about Karjanen's work. -Journal of Urban Affairs Written in an accessible style, this is a cautionary tale of how urban revitalization bypasses low-income communities, constraining the economic mobility of the working poor and increasing their reliance on shady financial services and other predatory institutions. -Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago The Servant Class City is a remarkable book. There are few other books that document growing urban inequality's mechanisms in such a fine-grained way, with both qualitative and quantitative evidence. -Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin-Madison The book s strong point is its grounding in the real lives of people. <i>Planning Magazine</i></p> Author InformationDavid J. Karjanen is assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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