Working-Class New York
, by Freeman, Joshua B.- ISBN: 9781565847125 | 1565847121
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/2001
More than any American city, New York in the years after World War II laid out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. Ordinary workers and a dynamic labor movement helped make New York the envied model of liberal America and the scourge of conservatives everywhere: union wages and benefits, cheap and easy-to-use mass transit, affordable public housing, and healthcare for all.