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Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
NYC Labor Area Summary
Working-Class New York
Author: Joshua B. FreemanPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620977087
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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.
Westchester Labor Area Summary
Author: Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
Author: LaShawn HarrisPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252098420
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, and period literature, Harris teases out answers to essential questions about these women and their working lives. She also offers a surprising revelation, arguing that the burgeoning underground economy served as a catalyst in working-class black women TMs creation of the employment opportunities, occupational identities, and survival strategies that provided them with financial stability and a sense of labor autonomy and mobility. At the same time, urban black women, all striving for economic and social prospects and pleasures, experienced the conspicuous and hidden dangers associated with newfound labor opportunities.
Monthly Labor Review
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Monthly Checklist
Author: A Phoenix in the Ashes
Author: John Hull MollenkopfPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691228205
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven, deal-oriented, economic boom of the Reagan era. Exploring the interplay between social structural change and political power during this period, John Mollenkopf asks why a city with a large minority population and a long tradition of liberalism elected a conservative mayor who promoted real-estate development and belittled minority activists. Through a careful analysis of voting patterns, political strategies of various interest groups, and policy trends, he explains how Mayor Edward Koch created a powerful political coalition and why it ultimately failed.
states publications monthly checklist
Author: Directory of Federal Statistics for States and Local Areas
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description