The Transformation of the Institutions of Social Reproduction

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U.S. institutions have been starved of funding to a certain degree, because of the cuts that have come with the neo liberal period. These places are really vulnerable because they on local property taxes and local sales taxes. They don't have a ton of federal funding m as other social problems end up coming on to schools and libraries and places like them. The overarching mission in the book is t answer the question why we keep pursuing this particular strategy of economic development if the results aren't there. And i locate the answer in these sites of social reproduction,. Some of them are a republic owned by the state; some of them are private. Thereis no other place to receive those services.

Paris Marx is joined by Dan Greene to discuss how the Clinton administration reframed poverty through the lens of the internet and how that transformed the missions of key institutions like libraries and schools.

Dan Greene is an assistant professor at University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. He is the author of “The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.” Follow Dan on Twitter at @Green_DM.

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