Manufacturing in Manhattan
Eric Foner, 1 June 2000
Working-Class New York: Life and Labour Since World War Two
by Joshua Freeman.
New Press, 393 pp., $35, May 2000,1 56584 575 7 Show More
by Joshua Freeman.
New Press, 393 pp., $35, May 2000,
“... revivals. To be sure, a few blemishes mar the renaissance: the periodic killing of unarmed black men by the police, for example, or the persistent failure of the public school system. Census statistics, moreover, reveal that nearly all the benefit of the 1990s boom has gone to the richest fifth of the population. Always a city of ‘Progress and ... ”