This post was originally featured at the Gotham Center. By Stephen Brier The issue of who should control NYC’s public schools, like the poor, apparently will always be with us. These days, or at least since Michael Bloomberg’s mayoral reign, that control centers on how many years the city’s mayor will be allowed … Continue Reading ››
Tag Archives: Urban Studies
Event: Confronting the Tragedy (4/28-29)
Dates: April 28th-29th Time: 9am-5:30pm Location: Murphy Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Floor
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The Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies, CUNY, is bringing together academics, labor leaders, activists, students, and policy makers to pose crucial questions concerning the criminal justice system and the labor movement’s place and responsibility within it. Our two-day conference, … Continue Reading ››
Fall Graduate Class: Economic Democracy Against Economic Crisis
Taught by Evan Casper-Futterman With Guest Lectures by Dario Azzellini This class will be cross-listed in the Masters Programs of both Labor and Urban Studies. Speak to your adviser about registration. Monday nights at the Murphy Institute In the 1950s, labor unions claimed membership in 35% of the workforce. Today, density of labor unions outside of government employees is 6.7%. … Continue Reading ››
Prof. Steve Brier Publishes Book on Austerity and Public Education
Undesigning the Redline
In recent years, "gentrification" has infiltrated the everyday speech of urban residents struggling to stay in their communities in the face of rising rents. But gentrification is only one piece of a much longer history of displacement and policy-produced poverty in American cities. This history runs from slavery through Jim Crow, redlining, racial covenants, blockbusting, urban renewal, capital … Continue Reading ››
New Book from Prof. Michael Fortner: Urban Citizenship and American Democracy
Michael Javen Fortner, Assistant Professor and Academic Director of Urban Studies at the Murphy Institute and author of the sensational "Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment," has released a new book: "Urban Citizenship and American Democracy," co-edited by Amy Bridges:
After decades of being defined by … Continue Reading ››
