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.
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