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Wikipedia Article Selection

Area

San Francisco Bay Area

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Sector

Social economy

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Article Evaluation

Community Education

This article as flagged as having multiple issues, including a need for cleanup and a flawed intro paragraph, as well as not representing a worldwide view of the subject. Something that caught my attention is the fact that immediately after the introductory paragraphs, the next section jumps to "In the UK." It could potentially be helpful for me to add a section about in the United States or California, or perhaps even the Bay Area/East Bay. However, this still may not provide a "worldwide view," so I could perhaps research global sources on community education. Some other concerns include poor grammar and syntax, article structure, and relatively sparse citing. Even small tidbits of information appear to be drawn from assumptions, colloquialisms, or unnamed sources.

At one point, the article claims that, "Central to this [community education] is their ability to participate in democratic processes." Something to add - perhaps in the spirit of the Bread Project - is that it can also be to participate in the market. I feel that I could also greatly contribute to the "Role of the Professional" section, which is largely argumentative and theoretical and not grounded by reliable sources. It feels very opinion-heavy, as does the "Qualifications" section which includes no citations at all. Perhaps most concerning is the fact that only a few of the list of ten references lead to working sites.

In the talk page, the original author acknowledges that many of their sections will need improvement, including the fact that it is mostly grounded in a Scottish perspective. The most recent addition to the talk page was posted in December 2018 and is titled "Plan to Add new Section;" however, the section simply seems like a revised introduction paragraph that is perhaps more poorly written (choppy sentences, unclear, no citations).

Scholarly Sources

Area

San Francisco Bay Area - Economy

1) Schildt, Chris. “Building a Robust Anti-Poverty Network in the Bay Area.” Community Development, Sept. 2012.

https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/files/wp2012-03.pdf

This paper takes a largely technical approach to "building an anti-poverty network," exploring the various demographic components, employment rates, and social services available within East County. Although this focuses on East County and not necessarily the East Bay as a whole, the general poverty diagnoses and anti-poverty strategies can be extrapolated and applied to Berkeley and Oakland as well. It discusses policy and power, key aspects of Katz' exploration of the causes of poverty. This report will help provide a framework from which to conceptualize and diagnose the causes of poverty in the Bay Area for the Wikipedia article.

2) Mann, Geoff. “What's in a Day's Wage? Raced Work and the Social Production of Skill.” Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West, by Geoff Mann, University of North Carolina Press, 2007, pp. 81–113.

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rykiahl0ISsC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=the+bread+project+berkeley&ots=I4F9dLU5-e&sig=zcXS4nPtkr0Hc7l8WYxKrBsgN9Y#v=onepage&q&f=false

The information from this book could be applied to either sector or area, depending on which sections I pull from. It provides a relatively rested (published in 2007) historical analysis of work and wages in the American West. This will help me analyze some of the issues with market-based solutions to poverty that suggest entry into the job market as the way to end poverty. I'm hoping it will give me insight as to one of my greatest concerns about the Bread Project: do entry-level jobs really provide enough to make a living? What are the ultimate cost and benefit when considering the potentially lost state assistance plus time spent at work (i.e., no longer qualify to receive SNAP or unemployment but earns only marginally more while working more hours, thus tacking on costs of childcare, transportation, etc that may not have been costs present prior to employment).

3) Walker, Richard. Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area. PM Press, 2018.http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=Bay+Area+poverty/1%2C58%2C58%2CB/frameset&FF=XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&8%2C8%2C

Given its recent publishing date, this up-to-date source should provide insight as to the contemporary causes of poverty in the Bay Area, which is ever so quickly giving way to the technology industry and its well-paid employees who enter the local areas, push out low-income populations, and gentrify its businesses. I hope Pictures of a Gone City will offer some evidence-based examples and statistics of the effects of gentrification (and technology as a whole) on low-income communities to help shed light on poverty in the Bay Area (and East Bay in particular, if possible) for the Wikipedia article.

4) Plaster, Joseph. Importing injuries: how deregulation and the Wal-Mart poison the Port of Oakland's neighbors and force poverty wages on its truckers. http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=Bay+Area+poverty/1%2C58%2C58%2CB/frameset&FF=XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&18%2C18%2C

This source does sound like it may contain some bias and political skewing. However, if it contains reliable statistics regarding the specific, evidence-based results of Wal-Mart and deregulation on poverty levels, it may offer important insight on how and when poverty emerged in the Bay Area more contemporarily, as well as what catalyzed it.

Sector

Social Economy - US Section and Social Enterprise

1) Goode, Judith, and Jeff Maskovsky. The New Poverty Studies: the Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States. New York Univ. Press, 2001.http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/Xnew+poverty+studies&searchscope=1&SORT=D/Xnew+poverty+studies&searchscope=1&SORT=D&SUBKEY=new+poverty+studies/1%2C1026%2C1026%2CB/frameset&FF=Xnew+poverty+studies&searchscope=1&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C

This source, too, could be used for either area or sector depending on how specifically it delves into location. It should help contextualize what poverty looks like for different people who have faced different life hurdles - or, as the Bread Project would call them - employment barriers. It appears that this book will touch on the various answers Katz explores to "What kind of a problem is poverty?" because there are sections on gender and class (people problem), economic and cultural reconstruction of low wage labor markets (political economy), and activism (power). I hope to carry these various lenses of interpreting and understanding poverty into my various projects in 105 this year to reference as a framework. This book should be informative in helping me analyze the Bread Project's effectiveness as well as the overall issues with community education that frames employability as the end-all solution to poverty.

2) Pavel, M. Paloma. Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the next American Metropolis. MIT Press, 2009.http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=Bay+Area+poverty/1%2C58%2C58%2CB/frameset&FF=XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&15%2C15%2C

I aim to specifically focus on the section titled "A global perspective: community-driven solutions to urban poverty" will provide a global perspective that I can use to improve my sector article, Community Education, which was flagged for not representing a global view. I hope to also explore the section titled "Bridging the Bay: University/community collaborations in the San Francisco Bay Area." Again, depending on specific content (need to check out from library), this source could be used for area or sector. This should provide information as to what formal education at universities, which is often far out of reach for the low-income and/or those with employment barriers, actually provide to the communities which keep them afloat.

3) Dees, Gregory. The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship.

https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1472574/files/73555367?module_item_id=15632949

I took a class on Social Entrepreneurship last year, which focused on its various forms. At current, the Wikipedia article splits public, private, and non-profit sectors with social goals into very distinct, separate categories. It even uses a chart for the reader to visualize their structure. However, in this class I learned about the various legal and financial structures that these sorts of socially-driven operations can take; there are many hybrid forms that each can take. While the US Section of social economy does briefly mention these hybrid structures, it stands in contrast to the rigid structure given as a framework in the beginning of the article.

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4) For Love or Lucre, By Jim Fruchterman

5) See Area source #4, which could also be used for sector.