Working-Class New York
Subtitle: Life and Labor Since World War II
Publisher: New Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9781565845756
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Social History; Social classes; Urban communities; Minority Studies - General; New York - Local History; Social Stratification; Social conditions; History - General History; History: American; New York; United States - State & Local - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Working class; 20th century; History; Labor unions; New York (N.Y.); New York (State)
Description: "Working-Class New York is the moving story of the creation by workers and their allies of a local social democracy, remarkable in its ambitions and achievements, and the ways it came crashing down. With a keen eye for historical detail and a firm grasp of the intricacies of New York City politics, Freeman shows how the anti-communist purges of the 1950s decimated the ranks of the labor movement and demoralized its idealism, and how the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s dealt a crushing blow to liberal ideals as the city's wealthy elite made an audacious grab for power." "A work of cultural and social history, Working-Class New York is a chronicle of a dream that died but that may yet rise again, and a celebration of the sophistication, energy, and inventiveness of ordinary New Yorkers."--BOOK JACKET.