| City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States Contributor(s): Katznelson, Ira (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226426734 ISBN-13: 9780226426730 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1982 Annotation: In this book, the author looks at an important phenomenon of the sixties--the resurgence of community activism--and explains its resources, challenges, and failure. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - State - Social Science |
| Dewey: 320.809 |
| LCCN: 82008392 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.02" W x 8.95" (0.80 lbs) 286 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |