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- Title
Public-Private Partnerships: At What Cost to the Public?
- Authors
Krinsky, John; Simonet, Maud
- Abstract
Keywords: public-private partnerships; public workers; integral state; parks conservancies; neoliberalism EN public-private partnerships public workers integral state parks conservancies neoliberalism 70 78 9 09/11/23 20230901 NES 230901 Graph: The public-private management of Bryant Park (NYC) - whose success feeds massive real estate gains in the area - uses private, nonprofit labor and food stands whose revenue goes to the corporation that runs the park.Nadhia Rahman The double-sided business card was the emblem. As nonprofit workers joined volunteers, workfare workers, and civil service workers, the ease of building solidarity around worksite conditions and pay decreased; unionized workers formed a smaller portion of the workforce and the variety of work-statuses present at and across worksites made finding common ground more difficult, as neither volunteers nor workfare workers are defined as employees, and nonprofits could maintain their own pay-scales and supervisory practices. This was the beginning of a public-private workforce in Central Park.[17] Shortly later, regular city park workers refused to clean up a fish die-off in a lake in Central Park without out-of-contract compensation.[18] This convinced the CPC that it would be best to replace, over time, all or most of the municipal workers. We were interviewing workers in New York City's parks for a book about how the work of cleaning the parks had changed, and how it was emblematic of larger changes in New York City's governance.[4] When a manager of a Brooklyn park gave us her business card, it revealed to us the I private i face of her work, as the President of the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance.
- Subjects
PUBLIC-private sector cooperation; GROUP rights; PUBLIC spaces; BUSINESS improvement districts; CIVIL service positions; CHARITABLE giving
- Publication
New Labor Forum (Sage Publications Inc.), 2023, Vol 32, Issue 3, p70
- ISSN
1095-7960
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10957960231195035