{"product_id":"workingclass-new-york-life-and-labor-since-world-war-ii-9781565847125","title":"Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003eA lucid  detailed  and imaginative analysis (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War IIand 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 citys 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789847257141,"sku":"ByrdShop_1565847121","price":34.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781565847125.jpg?v=1784700476","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/workingclass-new-york-life-and-labor-since-world-war-ii-9781565847125","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}