City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York by Freeman, Joshua B.

City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City...
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Author: Joshua B. Freeman
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Language: English
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City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York by Freeman, Joshua B.

City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York

Dhs. 245.21

City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York

Dhs. 245.21
Author: Joshua B. Freeman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New York's labor history anew.

City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, daily life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have developed formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be like and whom it should be for. The book goes beyond the largely white, male wage workers in mainstream labor organizations who have dominated the history of labor movements to look at enslaved people, indentured servants, domestic workers, sex workers, day laborers, and others who have had to fight not only their masters and employers but also labor groups that often excluded them. Through their stories--how they fought for inclusion or developed their own ways to advance--it recenters labor history for contemporary struggles. City of Workers, City of Struggle offers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities.

In association with the exhibition City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York

Author: Joshua B. Freeman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 04/20/2021
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780231191937

About the Author
Joshua B. Freeman is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (2018); American Empire, 1945-2000: The Rise of a Global Power; the Democratic Revolution at Home (2012); and Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II (2000).

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