Fear City
Title | Fear City PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Phillips-Fein |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2017-04-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0805095268 |
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages, and fire thousands of workers, they insisted, or financial apocalypse would ensue. In this vivid account, historian Kim Phillips-Fein tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city. With unions and ordinary citizens refusing to accept retrenchment, the budget crunch became a struggle over the soul of New York, pitting fundamentally opposing visions of the city against each other. Drawing on never-before-used archival sources and interviews with key players in the crisis, Fear City shows how the brush with bankruptcy permanently transformed New York—and reshaped ideas about government across America. At once a sweeping history of some of the most tumultuous times in New York's past, a gripping narrative of last-minute machinations and backroom deals, and an origin story of the politics of austerity, Fear City is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the resurgent fiscal conservatism of today.
Overview of New York City's Fiscal Crisis
Title | Overview of New York City's Fiscal Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Dunstan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1995-03 |
Genre | Debts, Public |
ISBN | 9781587030338 |
The Long Crisis
Title | The Long Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Holtzman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190843705 |
Low-income housing in crisis -- From renters to owners -- Remaking public parks -- Patrolling city streets -- The trouble with development -- The governance of homelessness and public space.
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.
The Long Default
Title | The Long Default PDF eBook |
Author | William K. Tabb |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0853455724 |
Classic study of the fiscal crisis that gripped New York City — and much of urban America — in the 1970s.
New York City Fiscal Crisis
Title | New York City Fiscal Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | New York (N.Y.). Mayor. Washington Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Fear City
Title | Fear City PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Phillips-Fein |
Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2017-04-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 080509525X |
"When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible: how could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? And yet the city was billions of dollars (maybe twelve, maybe fourteen, no one even really knew how much) in the red. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was doomed to failure; and promised apocalyptic scenarios if the city didn't fire thousands of workers, freeze wages, and slash social services. [The author] tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city, forever transforming the largest metropolis in the United States and reshaping ideas about government throughout the country. In doing so, she brings to life a radically different New York, the legendarily decrepit city of the 1970s. Drawing on never-before-used archival sources as well as interviews with key players in the crisis, Phillips-Fein guides us through the hairpin turns and sudden reversals that brought New York City to the edge of bankruptcy, and kept it from going over."--