Week 2

Key Qustions

• What is the nonprofit industrial complex? How is it related to neoliberalism?

• What caused nonprofits to gain an outsized role in the delivery of social services? What are the implications of this “welfare on the cheap”?

Required Materials:

• François Bonnet, The Upper Limit: How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment and Welfare, “Nonprofits: Welfare on the Cheap”

• Myrl Beam, Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics, “Neoliberalism, Nonprofitization, and Social Change”

• Katie Thomas and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, "How a Hospital Chain Used a Poor Neighborhood to Turn Huge Profits"

• Erica West, “Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex”

Supplementary Materials:

• Ruth Wilson Gilmore, “In the Shadow of the Shadow State”

• Claire Dunning, Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State, “The Grantees”

• Claire Dunning, Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State, “The Partners”

• Claire Dunning, Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State, “The Coalitions”

• Paul Kivel, “Social Service or Social Change?”

• Maggie Dickinson, Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment in America’s Food Safety Net, “Free to Serve? Emergency Food and Volunteer Labor”