City of Workers, City of Struggle : How Labor Movements Changed New York / Joshua B. Freeman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freeman, Joshua B., Editor.

Series:

Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.

Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--New York (State)--New York--History.

Labor unions.

Labor--New York (State)--New York--History.

Labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table Of Contents

Director's Foreword

Introduction

Section 1

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Section 2

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Section 3

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15 Domestic Workers

Chapter 16

Conclusion

For Further Reading

Index

Image Credits

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780231549585

023154958X

OCLC:

1102399142