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A Path to Work

Nicole P. Marwell

in Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City

In a world where meeting the twin responsibilities of making money and discharging domestic duties has become considerably more complex than in the past, community-based organizations (CBOs) form a ... More

In a world where meeting the twin responsibilities of making money and discharging domestic duties has become considerably more complex than in the past, community-based organizations (CBOs) form a key piece of the survival system for low-income families. For one thing, they serve as important sources of employment for neighborhood residents. From Los Sures in Williamsburg to the New Life Child Development Center in Bushwick, CBOs create jobs and provide an environment that eases residents with limited employment histories into paid work. Although many CBO jobs are low paying or part time, they often are appropriate for the skill levels of local residents. CBOs also organize the provision of several critical domestic-sphere services that make it possible for adult family members to engage in paid work in the first place; taking care of children and assisting elderly relatives with daily living tasks are the most important of these. This chapter details some of the ways that they connect local residents to paid work, both by creating opportunities to earn money and by helping to fulfill domestic responsibilities.Less

Labour Regulation in the Liberalised Casino Economy: The Case of the Croupiers

Alex H. Choi and Eva P. W. Hung

in Gaming, Governance and Public Policy in Macao

This chapter presents a study of croupiers working in Macao's casinos, and analyses the significance of the government's decision to reserve this employment for local residents.

“My Job Would Be Far Easier If Locals Were Already Capitalists”: Incubating Enterprise and Patronage

Marina Welker

in Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

This chapter examines how Batu Hijau's community programs have worked to foster and channel—as well as to suppress—patronage dynamics. It also develops a view of local residents as actors engaged ... More

This chapter examines how Batu Hijau's community programs have worked to foster and channel—as well as to suppress—patronage dynamics. It also develops a view of local residents as actors engaged with (and not simply acted upon by) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) business development initiatives. Their perspectives on what the corporation is and what it owes them shape Newmont's community development plans and programs, creating flows of money, materials, ideas, and persons across mine boundaries. These flows and dynamics are constitutive of rather than marginal to everyday mine operations. They challenge us to make sense of how corporate managers variously claim integration with, distance from, and control over their trading partners—to understand how and why they essay rhetorically and materially to gather them in and hold them at a distance.Less

Beyond “Stakeholders”and The Zero-Sum Game: Toward community-based collaborative conservation in the american West

Nathan F. Sayre and David Seibert

in Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes

A growing trend in attempts to manage land for multiple interests is the formation of community-based collaborative conservation groups (CBCCs). Often created and led by rural ranchers, forest owners ... More

A growing trend in attempts to manage land for multiple interests is the formation of community-based collaborative conservation groups (CBCCs). Often created and led by rural ranchers, forest owners and other producers, they include alliances with scientists, conservationists, and agency resource managers all seeking common ground and pragmatic solutions to resource management issues. CBCCs are generally place-based, identifying site-specific goals and management practices for landscapes that cross jurisdictional and other boundaries. They recognize the knowledge and long-term commitments of local residents. Examples come from the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance in southern Arizona, the Diablo Trust in northern Arizona, the Malpai Borderlands Group in southern Arizona/New Mexico, and the Laramie Foothills Group in Colorado. Collectively, their greatest accomplishments may be the formation of partnerships based on trust in the face of legitimate differences and presenting a unified voice in natural resource management and decision-making.Less