City Trenches

By Ira Katznelson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039450075X
• ISBN13: 9780394500751
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: Pantheon
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.