City Trenches(English, Paperback, Katznelson Ira)

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City Trenches(English, Paperback, Katznelson Ira) is written by Katznelson Ira and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226426734 (ISBN 10) and 9780226426730 (ISBN 13).

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.