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

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226426734
• ISBN13: 9780226426730
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"