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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Biondi, Martha,; Blackmar, Elizabeth,; Brown, Joshua,; Chin, Margaret M.,; Donhauser, Whitney W.,; Freeman, Joshua B.,; Greenberg, Brian,; Guest, Kenneth J.,; Harris, LaShawn,; Harris, Leslie M.,; Henry, Sarah M.,; Herbert, William A.,; Jaffe, Steven H.,; Lauria-Santiago, Aldo A.,; Middleton, Simon,; Milkman, Ruth,; Nadasen, Premilla,; Orleck, Annelise,; Phillips-Fein, Kim,; Thayer, Johnathan,
• HerausgeberIn: Freeman, Joshua B.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 225 illustrations, full color throughout

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 Y...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table Of Contents
• Director's Foreword
• Introduction
• Workers In The City Of Commerce: 1624-1898
• Section 1
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Union City: 1898-1975
• Section 2
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Crisis & Transformation: 1975- 2018
• Section 3
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15 Domestic Workers
• Chapter 16
• Conclusion
• For Further Reading
• Index
• Image Credits