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GCI Working Paper Series - Author Last Name: "C"
Camacho Jennifer
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.
Chen, Xiangming
Regionalizing the
Global-Local Economic Nexus: A Tale of Two Regions in China
Xiangming Chen
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar, 2005-2006
March 2006
GCP-06-01
This paper offers a new framework for conceptualizing and analyzing
region as capable of mediating or restructuring global-local economic
relations in varied ways. It describes the structural and spatial formations
of regionalized global-local value chains and production networks, analyzes
the opportunities and constraints for indigenous Chinese firms in the
two regions of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) and the Yangtze River Delta
(YRD) to achieve industrial upgrading.
Clark, Terry Nichols
The New Chicago School
Terry Nichols Clark
University of Chicago
September 2006
GCP-06-04
Michael Dear et al’s “LA School” builds on a critique
of the old Chicago school. This paper extends the discussion by incorporating
broader theories about how cities work, stressing culture and politics.
New Yorkers lean toward class analysis, production, inequality, dual
labor markets, and related themes--deriving for some from a secular
Marxism. LA writers are more often individualist, subjectivist, consumption-oriented;
some are also postmodernist. Chicago is the largest American city with
a heavily Catholic population, which heightens attention to personal
relations, extended families, neighborhoods, and ethnic traditions.
These in turn lead observers to stress culture and politics in Chicago,
as these vary so heavily by subculture. The paper outlines seven axial
points for a New Chicago School.
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