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GCI Working Paper Series - Author Last Name: "A"
Abu-Lughod, Janet
Can Chicago Make It as
a Global City?
Janet Abu-Lughod
Professor Emerita, Sociology, Northwestern University
Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York
University of Illinois at Chicago and Great Cities Institute Faculty
Fellow 2004-2005
June 2000
GCP-00-2
Chicago is a global city. It always has been. But the answer to the
question, "Can Chicago make it as a vital, growing, commanding
center in the new configuration of the global system?" is not so
evident. This paper is from a presentation made in November, 1999 at
the Harold Washington Center of the Chicago Public Library as part of
the Great Cities Institute's 1999-2000 Lecture Series and is based on
Dr. Abu-Ludhod's 1999 book, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's
Global Cities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
Ahrents, Courtney
Obstacles
to Employment of Women with Abusive Partners:
A Summary of Select Interview
Data
Stephanie Riger, Courtney Ahrents, Amy Blickenstaff, and
Jennifer Camacho
July 1999
GCP-99-1
A high proportion of women who receive welfare are abused by their intimate
partners. This paper examines the relationship among welfare receipt,
job readiness (i.e., employment history and training), employment resources
(i.e., transportation and child care) and intimate violence among women
in three domestic violence shelters. These women have few job skills
and many barriers to employment. Many reported long-term physical or
mental health problems, and most had young children at home, making
work difficult. Most of the women were unemployed and few had any kind
of job training. Their job histories consisted of intermittent work
for low pay in unskilled positions. Many of their abusers disrupted
the women’s work and school efforts, severely interfering with
their attempts at self-sufficiency.
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