{"product_id":"who-cleans-the-park-john-krinsky-9780226435589","title":"Who Cleans the Park?: Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City","description":"America'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eWho Cleans the Park?\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003e Who Cleans the Park?\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eWho Cleans the Park?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Krinsky, Maud Simonet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022643558X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226435589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"John Krinsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44919634526463,"sku":"9780226435589","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b837212-0572-4162-9af9-b7a826ccb667.jpg?v=1710359052","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/who-cleans-the-park-john-krinsky-9780226435589","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}