Download or read book Working-class New York written by Joshua Benjamin Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a sweeping history of the model city that working class New Yorkers created after World War II and discusses how anti-communist sentiment in the 1950s and fiscal crisis in the 1970s combined to decimate the labor movement and bring a crushing blow to liberal idealism.