City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New YorkPaperback, 20 April 2021

City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York
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Part of Series
Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
Print Length
248 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Date Published
20 Apr 2021
ISBN-10
0231191936
ISBN-13
9780231191937

Description

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

Product Details

Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
20 April 2021
Dimensions:
24.64 x 17.53 x 1.52 cm
Genre:
Mid-Atlantic
ISBN-10:
0231191936
ISBN-13:
9780231191937
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
248
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Weight:
680.39 gm

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