An Ethnography of the Goodman Building, 1st ed. 2019
The Longest Rent Strike
Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Series

?An Ethnography of the Goodman Building vividly incorporates a wide variety of methods to tell the story of class struggle in a building, neighborhood, and city that is replicated globally. I read it as a number of boxes inside each other opened in the course of reading. Caldararo recounts the building?s personal ?biography? to convey not only the ?facts about,? but the ?feelings about? the flesh and blood of the building and its surrounding neighborhood.? ?Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, USA

Through in-depth analysis and narrative investigation of an actual building occupation, Niccolo Caldararo seeks to not only offer an historical account of the Goodman Building in San Francisco, but also focus on the active resistance tactics of its residents from the 1960s to the 1980s. Taking as its focal point the building itself, the volume weaves in and out of every life involved and the struggles that surround it?San Francisco?s urban renewal, ethnic clearing, gentrification, and municipal governance at a time of booming urban growth. Caldararo, a tenant at the center of its strikes and activities, provides a unique perspective that counteracts current trends in ethnographies of urban movements by grounding its analysis in physical and tangible space.

Grounds urban ethnography in a physical space, the Goodman Building

Provides the first example of a “building biography” in Urban Anthropology, a model for future study

Examines the greatly changing urban environment from the point of view of a single community