Working-Class New York (eBook)

Life and Labor Since World War II

Joshua B. Freeman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-708-8 (ISBN)

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A ';lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis' (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War IIand its tragic demise More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. Largely through the efforts of its working class and the dynamic labor movement it built, New York City became the envied model of liberal America and the scourge of conservatives everywhere: cheap and easy-to-use mass transit, work in small businesses and factories that had good wages and benefits, affordable public housing, and healthcare for all. Working-Class New York is an ';engrossing' (Dissent) account of the birth of that ideal and the way it came crashing down. In what Publishers Weekly calls ';absorbing and beautifully detailed history,' historian Joshua Freeman shows how the anticommunist purges of the 1950s decimated the ranks of the labor movement and demoralized its idealists, and how the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s dealt another crushing blow to liberal ideals as the city's wealthy elite made a frenzied grab for power. A grand work of cultural and social history, Working-Class New York is a moving chronicle of a dream that died but may yet rise again.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: 20th century Working class in New York • 2th century Working class in New York • History 20th century. New York (N.Y.) • History 2th century. New York (N.Y.) • history labor unions • History working class in New York • Labor Unions • New York History 20th century • New York History 2th century • New York in WWII • Social conditions 20th century New York. • Social conditions 2th century New York.
• ISBN-10: 1-62097-708-7 / 1620977087
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-708-8 / 9781620977088