| Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina Subjects: Urban renewal -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Elite (Social sciences) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Working class -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; New Orleans (La.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century; New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification In Renew Orleans? Aaron Schneider shows how some city leaders were able to access fragmented local institutions and capture areas of public policy vital to their development agenda. Through interviews and surveys with workers and advocates in construction, restaurants, shipyards, and hotel and casino cleaning, Schneider contrasts sectors prioritized during post-Katrina recovery with neglected sectors. The result is a fine-grained view of the way labor markets are structured to the advantage of elites, emphasizing how dual development produces wealth for the few while distributing poverty and exclusion to the many on the basis of race, gender, and ethnicity. Schneider shows the way exploitation operates both in the workplace and the community, tracing working-class resistance that joins struggles for dignity at home and work. In the process, working classes and popular sectors put forth their own alternative forms of development. 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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