Working-Class New York
Title | Working-Class New York PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua B. Freeman |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2021-04-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1620977087 |
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 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.
Wages in New York City
Title | Wages in New York City PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1980-05 |
Genre | Wages |
ISBN |
The Economic Status of the Wage Earner in New York and Other States
Title | The Economic Status of the Wage Earner in New York and Other States PDF eBook |
Author | National Industrial Conference Board |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Cost and standard of living |
ISBN |
Wages and Benefits of New York City Municipal Government Workers
Title | Wages and Benefits of New York City Municipal Government Workers PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 1977-05 |
Genre | New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN |
Employment, Earnings, and Wages in New York City, 1950-60
Title | Employment, Earnings, and Wages in New York City, 1950-60 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Middle Atlantic Region |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Labor supply |
ISBN |
Women's Wages Today
Title | Women's Wages Today PDF eBook |
Author | Consumers' League of New York (State) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Cost and standard of living |
ISBN |
Wages in the Metropolis
Title | Wages in the Metropolis PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Segal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
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