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City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States

By Ira Katznelson

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1982
ISBN
0226426734, 9780226426730
LCC
HT123
Open Library ID
OL21194706M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23050433 bytes)
Pages
267\145
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

In City Trenches, Ira Katznelson looks at an important phenomenon of the sixties—the resurgence of community activism—and explains its sources, challenges, and failure. Katznelson argues that the American working class perceives workplace politics and community politics as separate and distinct spheres, a perception that defeats attempts to address grievances or raise demands that break the rules of local politics or of bread-and-butter unionism. He supports his thesis with an absorbing case study of Washington Heights-Inwood, a multiethnic working-class community in Manhattan.

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