John Krinsky

Professor

Main Affiliation

Political Science

Building

North Academic Center

Office

4/136A

Phone

212-650-5236

Fax

212-650-5464

John Krinsky

John Krinsky

Profile

John Krinsky is professor of political science, with an interest in labor and community organizing in New York. He specializes in urban politics, the politics of social movements, and the politics of work, welfare and labor. He is a co-editor of the online peer-reviewed journal Metro-politics and a co-editor of the journal Social Movement Studies. He co-coordinates the Politics and Protest Workshop at the CUNY Graduate Center and is a founding board member of the New York City Community Land Initiative.

Education

Ph.D. Columbia, 2002

Courses Taught

PSC 12500: Introduction to Public Policy

PSC 21000: Urban Politics

PSC 32400: The Politics of Protest 

Publications

Books

 

Who Cleans the Parks? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City (w/ Maud Simonet). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Free Labor: Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Reviewed in Contemporary Sociology (Chris Tilly); Perspectives on Politics (Guian McKee); Urban Studies (Alex Law).

 

(with Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, and Alf Gunvald Nilsen), Marxism and Social Movements. Edited volume of seventeen articles. Editing responsibilities equally shared. Historical Materialism Book Series, June 2013 (Haymarket Books edition, June 2014). 

 

Articles and Book Chapters

 

鈥淢arxism and the Politics of Possibility鈥 in Marxism and Social Movements.(with Maud Simonet), 鈥淎ux marges du travail, au centre de son ex茅cution: les temporalit茅s du travail neoliberal.鈥 (At the margins of work, at the center of its execution: temporalities of neoliberal public-sector work). Chapter for Le travail 脿 ses marges, ed. Patrick Cingolani. Paris: Eres, 2012.

 

鈥淣ew York City: 1929-1941鈥 in Cities in American History, edited by Richardson Dilworth. CQ Press, 2011.

 

(with Colin Barker) 鈥淢ovement Strategizing as Developmental Learning: Perspectives from Cultural Historical Activity Theory.鈥 Pp. 209-228 in Culture, Protest, and Social Movements, edited by Hank Johnston, Ashgate Publishers, 2009.

 

鈥淎CORN.鈥 In Alice O鈥機onnor and Gwendolyn Mink, eds., ABC-CLIO Encyclopedia of Poverty and Social Welfare, 2005.

 

(with Ann Mische), 2013.  鈥淔ormations and Formalisms: Charles Tilly and the Paradox of the Actor.鈥 Annual Review of Sociology.

 

Jenny Pickerill and John Krinsky, 鈥淲hy Occupy Matters鈥, editors鈥 introduction,Social Movement Studies 11, 3-4 (special issue on Occupy!): 279-287. November 2012.

 

鈥淒e New York 脿 Madison: Le workfare et la remise en cause du service public,鈥漃olitique Am茅ricaine (November 2012)  (From New York to Madison : Workfare and the question of public service.)

 

John Krinsky and Maud Simonet, 鈥淒茅ni de travail. L'invisibilisation du travail aujourd'hui鈥 Editors鈥 introduction, Special issue of Soci茅t茅s Contemporaines87 ,3 (2012) : 5-23. (The Denial of Work : The Invisibilization of Work Today)

 

(with Maud Simonet), "La Servitude et la Volontaire: Les Usages Politiques du Travail Invisible dans les Parcs de la Ville de New York," Societes Contemporaines 87, 3 (2012): 49-74. (Servitude and Volunteerism: The Political Uses of Work in New York City's Parks)

 

(with Maud Simonet), 鈥淪afeguarding Private Value in Public Space: Neoliberalizing Labor in New York City鈥檚 Parks.鈥 Social Justice 38, 1-2. Special issue 鈥淧olicing the Crisis鈥擯olicing in Crisis,鈥 ed. Volker Eick and Kendra Briken, 2011. Contracts for book versions in English and German have also been reached.

 

鈥淣eoliberal Times: Intersecting Temporalities and the Neoliberalization of New York City鈥檚 Public-Sector Labor Relations鈥 Social Science History 33, 5 (Fall 2011): 381-422.

 

鈥淒ynamics of Hegemony: Mapping Mechanisms in Debates over Workfare in New York City, 1993-1999.鈥 Poetics 38, 6 (October 2010) : 625-648.

 

(with Maud Simonet), Qui nettoie le parc? Statuts de travailleurs et r茅gimes de mobilisation dans l鈥檈ntretien des jardins  municipaux 脿 New York (Who cleans the park ? Worker status and mobilization regimes in the maintenance of New York City鈥檚 parks). Journ茅es Internationales du Sociologie du Travail (Presse Universitaire de Nancy, 2011).

 

鈥淐hanging Minds: Cognition and Culture in the Opposition to Workfare in New York City鈥 Social Movement Studies 7, 1 (May 2008): 1鈥30.

 

鈥淭he Urban Politics of Workfare: Rescaling, Retrenchment, Regimes, and Redistribution in New York City.鈥 Urban Affairs Review 42 (July 2007): 771鈥798.

 

Guest Editor, 鈥淐onstructing Workers,鈥 special issue of Qualitative Sociology on organizing workers in non-standard labor contracts. Vol. 30, No. 4 (December 2007).

 

鈥淐onstructing Workers: Working-Class Formation Under Neoliberalism.鈥漄ualitative Sociology 30, 4 (2007): 343鈥360.

 

鈥淭he Dialectics of Privatization and Advocacy in New York City's Workfare State.鈥 Social Justice 33, 3 (2006):158鈥74.

 

(with Ellen Reese)   Sociological Forum 21, 4 (December 2006): 623鈥658. 

 

Book Reviews in Journals

 

Review of Nicole Marwell, Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City.  In Social Forces 88, 2 (December 2009): 998-1000.

 

Review of Guian A. McKee, The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.  In Perspectives on Politics 7 (2009): 665-666.

 

Review of Alex Vitale, City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Changed New York City Politics, New York: NYU Press. In Contemporary Sociology 38, 2 (March 2009): 160-161.

 

Review of David S. Meyer, The Politics of Protest: Social Movements In America.  In Contemporary Sociology 36, 5 (September 2007): 487-488.

 

Review of Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram, eds. Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy. In Social Forces 85, 1 (2006): 591-592.

 

鈥淟e Workfare: N茅olib茅ralisme et contrats du travail dans le secteur public aux 脡tats-Unis.鈥 Les Notes de l鈥橧ES 8 (November-December 2009)Institut Europ茅en du Salariat. Online at 

 

Other Writing

 

鈥淭he 18th Brumaire of Iain Duncan Smith.鈥 The Guardian. Comment is Free.;(November 9, 2010).(with Laura Wernick and Paul Getsos). WEP/The Work Experience Program: New York City鈥檚 Public Sector Sweatshop Economy. Research report. New York: Community Voices Heard, June 2000.

 

(with Sarah Hovde). Hands-on Housing: A Guide Through Mutual Housing Associations and Community Land Trusts. New York: The Community Service Society of New York, 1996.

 

(with Sarah Hovde). Balancing Acts: The Experience of Mutual Housing Associations and Community Land Trusts in Urban Neighborhoods. New York: The Community Service Society of New York, 1996 (180 pages).

 

(with Sarah Hovde). 鈥淲atchful Stewards: Mutual Housing Associations and Community Land Trusts Preserve Affordable Housing.鈥 Shelterforce (March/April 1997).