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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Ira Katznelson is the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Black Men, White Cities, published by the University of Chicago Press, and coauthor with Mark Kesselman of The Politics of Power.
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Most people live on the margin of history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traditional urban system, parents slate, urban class system, older port cities, city trenches, block survey, neighborhood government, school decentralization, school activists, residence communities, urban movements, residence community Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Washington Heights-Inwood, Civil War, Fort Tryon, Second World War, Board of Education, Puerto Rican, Central Board, Mayor Lindsay, Neighborhood Action Program, Catholic Church, District Board, Raymond Williams, Sacred Heart, Tammany Hall, Community Planning Board, Daniel Boorstin, Frances Piven, Hudson River, Social Security, Werner Sombart New!
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Most people live on the margin of history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traditional urban system, parents slate, urban class system, older port cities, city trenches, block survey, neighborhood government, school decentralization, school activists, residence communities, urban movements, residence community Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Washington Heights-Inwood, Civil War, Fort Tryon, Second World War, Board of Education, Puerto Rican, Central Board, Mayor Lindsay, Neighborhood Action Program, Catholic Church, District Board, Raymond Williams, Sacred Heart, Tammany Hall, Community Planning Board, Daniel Boorstin, Frances Piven, Hudson River, Social Security, Werner Sombart New!
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- Political Organizations (Princeton Studies in American Politics) by James Q. Wilson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Country and the City by Raymond Williams in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Political Order in Changing Societies (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series) by Samuel P. Huntington in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Progressive Historians by Richard Hofstadter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- History of Labor in the United States by John R. Commons in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by Michael B. Katz on 4 pages
- Metropolitan America by Kenneth Fox in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 (Historical Studies of Urban America) by David O. Stowell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s by David Strand in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- City and Regime in the American Republic by Stephen L. Elkin on page 2, page 7, and Back Matter
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