City of Workers, City of Struggle
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-19193-7 (ISBN)
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
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).
Director’s Foreword, by Whitney W. Donhauser
Introduction: Workers’ Movements, Workers’ Struggles in New York, by Sarah M. Henry
Workers in the City of Commerce: 1624–1898
1. Artisan Labor in Colonial New York and the New Republic, by Simon Middleton
2. Slave Labor in New York, by Leslie M. Harris
3. Sailors Ashore in New York’s Sailortown, by Johnathan Thayer
4. Housework and Homework in 19th-Century New York City, by Elizabeth Blackmar
5. Victims, B’hoys, Foreigners, Slave-Drivers, and Despots: Picturing Work, Workers, and Activism in 19th-Century New York, by Joshua Brown
Union City: 1898–1975
6. The Needle Trades and the Uprising of Women Workers: 1905–1919, by Annelise Orleck
7. Sex Work and the Underground Economy, by LaShawn Harris
8. Here Comes the CIO, by Joshua B. Freeman
9. Puerto Rican Workers and the Struggle for Decent Lives in New York City: 1910s–1970s, by Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago
10. Labor and the Fight for Racial Equality, by Martha Biondi
11. Public Workers, by William A. Herbert
Crisis and Transformation: 1975– 2018
12. The Fiscal Crisis and Union Decline, by Kim Phillips-Fein
13. Health-care Workers and Union Power, by Brian Greenberg
14. Chinatown, the Garment and Restaurant Industries, and Labor, by Kenneth J. Guest and Margaret M. Chin
15. Domestic Workers, by Premilla Nadasen
16. New Forms of Struggle: The “Alt-labor” Movement in New York City, by Ruth Milkman
Conclusion: How Labor Shaped New York and New York Shaped Labor, by Joshua B. Freeman
For Further Reading
Index
Image Credits
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.06.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism |
| Zusatzinfo | 225 illustrations, full color throughout |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-231-19193-6 / 0231191936 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-19193-7 / 9780231191937 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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