Political Economy

Summary on Unique New York: class conflict and the development/ retrenchment of New York’s “exceptional” welfare state Joshua Freeman Working Class New York Introduction; Part 2 “Labor’s City; Ch 15 (the Fiscal Crisis) Kim Phillips- Fein Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics · Western, Bruce, and Katherine Beckett. “How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution.” American Journal of Sociology 104, no. 4 (January 1, 1999): 400 word summary on Political Economy of Retrenchment/ the Carceral State · Western, Bruce, and Katherine Beckett. “How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution.” American Journal of Sociology 104, no. 4 (January 1, 1999):