Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina

Through interviews and surveys, Aaron Schneider contrasts city sectors prioritized during post-Katrina recovery with neglected sectors. The result is a fine-grained view of the way labor markets are structured to the advantage of elites, emphasizing how dual development produces wealth for the few while distributing poverty and exclusion to the many on the basis of race, gender, and ethnicity.