Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Updated Edition

by Ida Susser

Book Overview

Based on a three-year study of Brooklyn's Greenpoint-Williamsburg area, Norman Street is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-78. Now updated with a new introduction to address the changes and events of the thirty years since the book's original publication, its lessons continue to demonstrate the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195367308
• ISBN13: 9780195367300
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"