LEADER 04188nam 22006375 450 001 9910838231303321 005 20191022022751.0 010 $a0-226-43558-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226435619 035 $a(CKB)3710000001118551 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4827753 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001654773 035 $a(DE-B1597)524011 035 $a(OCoLC)979417574 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226435619 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001118551 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWho Cleans the Park? $ePublic Work and Urban Governance in New York City /$fMaud Simonet, John Krinsky 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (295 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-226-43544-X 311 $a0-226-43561-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1. Introduction -- $t2. The Workers -- $t3. The Work -- $t4. The Workplace -- $t5. Public- Private Partnerships -- $t6. Institutional Boundaries, Accountability, and the Integral State -- $t7. The Politics of Free Labor: Visibility and Invisibility -- $t8. Valuing Maintenance, Valuing Workers -- $tAfterword -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aAmerica's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars-both public and private-fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be picked up, benches painted, equipment tested, and leaves raked. Bringing this often-invisible work into view, however, raises profound questions for citizens of cities. In Who Cleans the Park? John Krinsky and Maud Simonet explain that the work of maintaining parks has intersected with broader trends in welfare reform, civic engagement, criminal justice, and the rise of public-private partnerships. Welfare-to-work trainees, volunteers, unionized city workers (sometimes working outside their official job descriptions), staff of nonprofit park "conservancies," and people sentenced to community service are just a few of the groups who routinely maintain parks. With public services no longer being provided primarily by public workers, Krinsky and Simonet argue, the nature of public work must be reevaluated. Based on four years of fieldwork in New York City, Who Cleans the Park? looks at the transformation of public parks from the ground up. Beginning with studying changes in the workplace, progressing through the public-private partnerships that help maintain the parks, and culminating in an investigation of a park's contribution to urban real-estate values, the book unearths a new urban order based on nonprofit partnerships and a rhetoric of responsible citizenship, which at the same time promotes unpaid work, reinforces workers' domination at the workplace, and increases the value of park-side property. Who Cleans the Park? asks difficult questions about who benefits from public work, ultimately forcing us to think anew about the way we govern ourselves, with implications well beyond the five boroughs. 606 $aParks$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xEmployees 606 $aParks$xMaintenance and repair$zNew York (State)$zNew York 610 $aNew York City. 610 $acitizenship. 610 $aneoliberalism. 610 $anonprofits. 610 $aparks. 610 $apublic sector. 610 $apublic-private partnerships. 610 $aurban governance. 610 $avolunteers. 610 $aworkfare. 615 0$aParks$xEmployees. 615 0$aParks$xMaintenance and repair 676 $a333.78309747 686 $aLC 24610$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aKrinsky$b John, $01597389 702 $aSimonet$b Maud, 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838231303321 996 $aWho Cleans the Park$94144097 997 $aUNINA