Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires
to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites
of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the
contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent
politics of the square is itself part of a broader shift in the
primary locations and targets of popular protest from the workplace
to the city. This shift is due to an array of intersecting
developments: the concentration of people, profit, and social
inequality in growing urban areas; the attacks on and precarity
faced by unions and workers' movements; and the sense of
possibility and actual leverage afforded by local politics and the
tactical use of urban space. Thus, "the city"-from the town square
to the banlieu-is becoming like the factory of old: a site of
production and profit-making as well as new forms of solidarity,
resistance, and social reimagining.We see examples of the city as
factory in new place-based political alliances, as workers and the
unemployed find common cause with "right to the city" struggles.
Demands for jobs with justice are linked with demands for the urban
commons-from affordable housing to a healthy environment, from
immigrant rights to "urban citizenship" and the right to streets
free from both violence and racially biased policing. The case
studies and essays in The City Is the Factory provide descriptions
and analysis of the form, substance, limits, and possibilities of
these timely struggles. Contributors Melissa Checker, Queens
College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York;
Daniel Aldana Cohen, University of Pennsylvania; Els de Graauw,
Baruch College, City University of New York; Kathleen Dunn, Loyola
University Chicago Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University; Miriam
Greenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz; Alejandro Grimson,
Universidad de San Martin (Argentina); Andrew Herod, University of
Georgia; Penny Lewis, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker
Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York; Stephanie
Luce, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor
Studies, City University of New York; Lize Mogel, artist and
coeditor of An Atlas of Radical Cartography; Gretchen Purser,
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse
University
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