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City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States

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City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States - Katznelson, Ira, Professor
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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 case study of Washington Heights ...

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City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States 1982, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226426730

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