The Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty: The Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative

Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Poverty Takes the Stage
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Critical Theory, The Welfare State, and Neo-liberalism
	The Welfare State in Neo-liberal Times
	The Rise of Social Rights and Questions of Recognition
	Power: Theoretical Debates
	Discourse Theory
	Critical Theory and Practice: Social Diagnosis
	The Breakdown of the Welfare State
	Neo-Liberalism and the Welfare State
	Transforming the Non-profit Sector
	The Dilemma of Neo-liberal Welfare Reform
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Deindustrialization, the Welfare State and Urban Decay
	The Deindustrial Condition
		Poverty and Deindustrialization
		A New Social Contract
	Lowered Expectations and Deaths of Despair
		Deindustrialization Hits Rochester
	Urban Policy and Decline in the Postwar Era
	White Flight and Poverty
	The Great Society
		Neo-liberal Urbanism
		Cities as Entrepreneurs
		From Entrepreneurialism to Financialization: Cities after 2008
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: From a City of Quality to a City of Poverty
	Race in Rochester: A Pattern of Discrimination and Neglect
	The Legacy of George Eastman
	A Second Wave
	A City of Quality?
	The Aftermath
	The Failure of School Integration
	Rochester Reacts to Deindustrialization
	Entertaining Adventures
	Floating in a Sinkhole of Debt
	Soccer Bails
	Eds and Meds in Rochester
	Industrial Devlopment Authority (IDA’s) and Local Favoritism
	Poverty Comes to the Fore
	A New Map for Fighting Poverty
	How Did RMAPI Operate
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Reading Poverty
	Prelude: The Policy Environment
	How to Read Poverty
	Are the Poor Deficient?
	The Family Revisited
	Poverty and Therapeutic Intervention: Trauma as a Cause of Poverty
	Asset Building Approaches
	Asset Building in Practice
	Predatory Inclusion and Formal Equality
	Structural Racism
	Poverty and Economic Exploitation
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Following the wrong map: From Social Enterprise to Collective Impact
	The Slow Rollout
	The Public and the Problems
	What Is Collective Impact?
	Precursors: Business Adopts Social Impact
	A Neo-liberal Trojan Horse?
	Private Public Partnerships
	Critical Views of Collective Impact
	The Problem of Implementation
	Collective Impact as a Form of Governance
	The Fetish of Data
	Collective Impact and System Theory
	What Is a System
	System Change or Social Change?
	The Complexity Problem
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Collective Impact in Action
	Collective Impact and the Long Rollout 2
	IBM and Collective Impact
	Self-Sufficiency or Precarity
	Developing Impact in Rochester
	RMAPI’s Borg Problem: Who Gets Funded
	Is It Collaboration?
	Connected Communities and Purpose-Built Communities
	The 2020 Report
	RMAPI Pilot Programs: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Self
	Conforming to Norms
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: Rethinking the Map
	Collective Impact 3.0
	The New Focus?
	Popular Democracy and RMAPI: contradictory impulses
	A New Leader
	Structural Racism Revisited
	Wither System Integration?
	Equal Opportunity or Expanded Social Rights?
		Martin Luther King: Social Democrat
	Bibliography
Index