City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States
by Ira Katznelson
University of Chicago Press (Nov 15, 1982)
Paperback, 286 pages
Nonfiction
Description of City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States by Ira Katznelson
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.

- ISBN: 9780226426730
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Parent Company: University of Chicago
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