Conservation Leadership (Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment)

Black, Simon

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Routledge

Conservation Leadership: A Practical Guide (Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment)

Social Reproduction and the City: Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)

The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York's unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services "on the cheap," relying on non-union home child care providers, welfare rights organizations, community legal clinics, child care advocates, low-income community groups, activist mothers, and labor unions organized to demand fair solutions to the child care crisis that addressed poor single mothers' need for quality, affordable child care as well as child care providers' need for decent work and pay. Social Reproduction and the City tells this story, linking welfare reform to feminist research and activism around the "crisis of care," social reproduction, and the neoliberal city. At a theoretical level, Simon Black's history of this era presents a feminist political economy of the urban welfare regime, applying a social reproduction lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. Feminist political economy and feminist welfare state scholarship have not focused on the urban as a scale of analysis, and critical approaches to urban neoliberalism often fail to address questions of social reproduction. To address these unexplored areas, Black unpacks the urban as a contested site of welfare state restructuring and examines the escalating crisis in social reproduction. He lays bare the aftermath of the welfare-to-work agenda of the Giuliani administration in New York City on child care and the resistance to policies that deepened race, class, and gender inequities.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

University of Georgia Press

Review\nOnce you look at the empirical realities―and Simon Black knows the realities―there is a glaring contradiction in the contemporary North American welfare state system between its reliance on workfare-style programs on the one hand and its near-neglect of childcare provisions for the families swept into these programs on the other hand. Black exposes and explains the empirical realities of these policies and then subjects them to a brilliant theoretical analysis. A fine book that casts light on a major feature of contemporary welfare policy. -- Frances Fox Piven ― coauthor with Richard Cloward of Regulating the Poor and Poor People’s Movements\nThe transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York’s unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services “on the cheap,” relying on non-union home child care providers, welfare rights organizations, community legal clinics, child care advocates, low-income community groups, activist mothers, and labor unions organized to demand fair solutions to the child care crisis that addressed poor single mothers’ need for quality, affordable child care as well as child care providers’ need for decent work and pay. Social Reproduction and the City tells this story, linking welfare reform to feminist research and activism around the “crisis of care,” social reproduction, and the neoliberal city.\nAt a theoretical level, Simon Black’s history of this era presents a feminist political economy of the urban welfare regime, applying a social reproduction lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. Feminist political economy and feminist welfare state scholarship have not focused on the urban as a scale of analysis, and critical approaches to urban neoliberalism often fail to address questions of social reproduction. To address these unexplored areas, Black unpacks the urban as a contested site of welfare state restructuring and examines the escalating crisis in social reproduction. He lays bare the aftermath of the welfare-to-work agenda of the Giuliani administration in New York City on child care and the resistance to policies that deepened race, class, and gender inequities.

Have you ever met people who think their dog is sooo wonderful? They talk about little Princess or Fido ALL the time. You wonder if they secretly think their dog is...a kid! Well, if you think they’re weird, you haven’t met Mr. and Mrs. McVitie. The McVities love their dog Judy so much, they long ago forgot that she’s not human. They let her sleep between them in the bed, they sew little outfits for her, they take her photo at every opportunity. One day, they dress her up and send her to kindergarten. The McVities even have a birthday party for Judy and invite all the kids and their parents. Are the McVities out of their minds? the parents wonder. Do these people think this dog is a kid? At the party, they soon find out exactly what the McVities think—and it’s even worse than they imagined: the McVities want Judy to blow out the candles! Judy saves the day with a birthday wish that changes their lives forever, and finally helps the McVities face reality. (Well, sort of).
 Simon Black teaches in the English department at Cal State LA. He is currently a writer on the animated show Chico and Guapo, which debuts in October on MTV2 and features two Latino characters trying to make it in the music business. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two kids and dog named Judy.
Mexican artist Honorio Robledo illustrated El Cucuy, Nico Visits the Moon, and Super Cilantro Girl.

The Dog Child

Children's Books

Animals

Cinco Puntos Press

Secrets of Argumentative Writing Revealed. Experienced professor of academic writing reveals the techniques that make your writing sound scholarly. Want to raise your grade in college or graduate school? Even high schoolers can benefit from this advanced course in essay writing. There is no better way to transform your writing. Students report that major improvements in their writing and their GPA occurred as a result of using Crack the Essay.

Crack the Essay: Secrets of Argumentative Writing Revealed

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Gramercy House Publishing

At last a workbook that takes the beginning creative writer from novice to expert in a few simple lessons.These fifteen modules are structuredin a way to develop step by step the writer's voice in poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction.The author takes examples from classic literature and contemporary publishing to demonstrate how writing works.What do creative geniuses do in their writing that ordinary writers don't? Wouldn't you like to know their secret? If so, this is the book for you.

Fifteen Weeks to Genius: Fifteen inspiring learning modules in writing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction

Independently published

BEYOND The Banking Holiday!! This is our sixth book in “The Coming Series”, and has to do with further helping Americans protect and build their life savings. In our previous books, we discuss the weakness of the U.S. banking system, including newly instituted “bail in” program, hyperinflation, expatriation, and protecting one’s self by investing in gold. This book is different. It spells out what Global banks intend to do with our savings during the next banking crisis. Americans, including ourselves, felt that when we put our money in our local bank, the money we put in was ours. Not any more! Once the teller takes your money, and gives you the deposit slip, it becomes the bank’s money. Chapter one explains the new rules, as of November, 2014, that we must all now live with. John and Monica Miller are Americans living in Auckland, New Zealand. Besides writing books to help Americans get their investments and savings out of harm’s way, they write a weekly newsletter, provide free financial advice, and answer all E-Mails. With regard to this book, the Millers say Americans must quickly learn the new banking rules, and take appropriate measures to protect themselves, and fast! For those readers, or radio listeners needing some assistance in getting some of your savings out of harm’s way, please write us an e-mail at: john@banking-holiday.com, or wallst101@hotmail.com. Monica and I will do our best in answering all your questions and concerns. There is now, no need for you to travel to NZ, or Australia, to open a savings account, as we did. This can all be done for you easily and safely using the Internet. Presently, NZ’s CD’s are paying 3.6% interest (per year), and you only have to hold them for one month (as opposed to 1-5 years in America). As a further safety measure, your CD’s are purchased within a “custodian account” (purchasing a “CD” within a custodian account is not available in the U.S.).

BEYOND The Banking Holiday: Your Savings Now Belongs To Your Bank, Not To You Anymore!

Business & Money

Celente, Gerald

Adams, Mike

Casey, Doug

King, Eric

Bisley, Nick

Miller, John & Monica

Hamlin, Jason

Durden, Tyler

Canavan, Greg

Investing

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Collected wit and wisdom from satire site Downinthedingle.com. Just the antidote for the year's maladies. Collected from the very popular satire blog that he edits. Here is a wide variety of humorous short pieces, including fake news, fiction, sci-fi, fake click bait, fake NesDoors, imaginary interviews with celebrities, imaginary speeches by CEOs of imaginary start-ups, semi-erotic fables of love and lust in Los Angeles, conversations with a dog about existence, and much more.

Down in the Dingle: Best of 2018

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

After a severe beating, young Steven Jones dies to his parents but continues to live as the playmate of an imaginary companion he has discovered inside himself called Kev. Kev helps Steven over some adolescent rough spots, then deserts him for a biker girl for whom Kev is also real.

Me and Kev

Literature & Fiction

Baskerville Pub

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