Shannon Bennett`s New York: A Personal Guide to the City`s Best, Shannon Bennett

Автор: Moonan Wendy
Название: New York Splendor: The City`s Most Memorable Rooms
ISBN: 0847846350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780847846351
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Design authority Wendy Moonan takes the reader on a tour of some of New York City`s finest residential rooms--past and present.

Автор: Hood Clifton
Название: In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City`s Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
ISBN: 0231172176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231172172
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Extending from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers` struggle to create a world guarded against outsiders. Clifton Hood shows elites` part in the larger story of the city through class conflict and their role in New York`s cultural and economic foundations.

Автор: Tina Lee
Название: Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City`s Child Welfare System
ISBN: 0813576148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813576145
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Influenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us see the role of child services as the prevention of severe physical abuse. But as Tina Lee shows in Catching a Case, most child welfare cases revolve around often ill-founded charges of neglect, and the parents swept into the system are generally struggling but loving, fighting to raise their children in the face of crushing poverty, violent crime, poor housing, lack of childcare, and failing schools. Lee explored the child welfare system in New York City, observing family courts, interviewing parents and following them through the system, asking caseworkers for descriptions of their work and their decision-making processes, and discussing cases with attorneys on all sides. What she discovered about the system is troubling. Lee reveals that, in the face of draconian budget cuts and a political climate that blames the poor for their own poverty, child welfare practices have become punitive, focused on removing children from their families and on parental compliance with rules. Rather than provide needed help for families, case workers often hold parents to standards almost impossible for working-class and poor parents to meet. For instance, parents can be accused of neglect for providing inadequate childcare or housing even when they cannot afford anything better. In many cases, child welfare exacerbates family problems and sometimes drives parents further into poverty while the family court system does little to protect their rights.  Catching a Case is a much-needed wake-up call to improve the child welfare system, and to offer more comprehensive social services that will allow all children to thrive.  

Автор: Hood Clifton
Название: In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City`s Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
ISBN: 0231172168 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231172165
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: "Clifton Hood traces the history of the elite class of New York City and the institutions they created in their relentless pursuit of privilege. While they were responsible for the creation of intuitions such as Columbia University, the New York Public Library system, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and provided skilled leadership in eras of immense turmoil, the idea of a privileged class clashes with the American democratic ideal. And, in fact, this upper class clashed with the rising professional class of bankers, lawyers, and other executives who increasingly rose in prestige and power as time rolled on. In Pursuit of Privilege traces the history of this elite class over two centuries, focusing on decades of upheaval and great change (such as the wars of the 1780s, 1860s, 1940s and the urban upheaval in the 1820s and 1970s), and argues the upper class was not born in the Gilded Age, but that the late nineteenth century was one of many periods where the elites wielded great power and influence and profoundly shaped, for better and for worse, the history of New York and America."--Provided by publisher.