City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States
by Ira Katznelson
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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 show more case study of Washington Heights-Inwood, a multiethnic working-class community in Manhattan. show lessTags
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Ira Katznelson is interim provost, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, and deputy director of Columbia World Projects at Columbia University. He is the author of many acclaimed books, including When Affirmative Action Was White (2005) and Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013).
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1981
- Important places
- Washington Heights, New York, New York, USA; New York, New York, USA
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- Genres
- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Sociology, Economics, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 320.8 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Local Government
- LCC
- JS1240 .W37 .K37 — Political Science Local government. Municipal government Local government. Municipal government United States
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- 44
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
