Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II

by Joshua B. Freeman

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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 II-and 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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1565847121
  • ISBN13 9781565847125
  • Publish Date 20 September 2001
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The New Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 440
  • Language English