John Krinsky is professor of political science at the City College of New York and the City University Graduate Center. Maud Simonet is a researcher with the National Scientific Research Center at the Institutions and Historical Dynamics of Economy and Society research center at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre.
"Who Cleans the Park? makes important contributions to the study of
public-private partnerships, labor precarity, volunteerism, and
neoliberalism. Krinsky and Simonet for the first time study the
park as a workplace, describing and analyzing employment relations
institutionalized in the park's labor market and showing how
through neoliberal policies workers are being undermined,
dismissed, and restructured. In the end, the book is not just about
the neoliberalization of public parks, but that of workplaces
everywhere."-- "Luis LM Aguiar, University of British Columbia"
"A major contribution right at the intersection where studies of
urban policy, political economy, and labor should meet studies of
care work and of civic engagement. . . . Who Cleans the Parks?
meticulously documents and theorizes everything you vaguely
suspected about public/private/nonprofit partnerships. . . In this
richly complex, colorful, and analytically provocative book, all
the pieces fit together in relation to each other."-- "American
Journal of Sociology"
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