Title Norman street : poverty and politics in an urban neighborhood / Ida Susser

Edition Updated ed Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) Summary Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn's Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, this book is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-1978. Now updated with a new introduction to address the changes and events of the thirty years since the book's original publication, its lessons still resonate in the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280)-and indexes Subject Municipal services -- New York (State) -- New York Finance, Public -- New York (State) -- New York Economic history Finance, Public Municipal services Social conditions SUBJECT Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions -- Case studies Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Case studies Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199710256 0199710252 9780199951192 0199951195

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