Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

by Vincanne Adams

Book Overview

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business. These enterprises profited from the very suffering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822354497
• ISBN13: 9780822354499
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"