Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914 - Couverture souple

Varga, Joseph J.

 
9781583673485: Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914
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ISBN 10 : 1583673482 ISBN 13 : 9781583673485
Editeur : Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2013

Synopsis

Hell's Kitchen is among Manhattan's most storied and studied
neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West
Side's middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted
the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers.
Now, Joseph Varga takes us on a tour of Hell's Kitchen
with an eye toward what we usually take for granted: space, and,
particularly, how urban spaces are produced, controlled, and contested
by different class and political forces.
Varga examines events and locations in a crucial period in the
formation of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, the Progressive Era,
and describes how reformers sought to shape the behavior and experiences
of its inhabitants by manipulating the built environment.
But those inhabitants had plans of their own, and thus ensued
a struggle over the very spaces--public and private, commercial
and personal--in which they lived. Varga insightfully considers the
interactions between human actors, the built environment, and
the natural landscape, and suggests how the production of and
struggle over space influence what we think and how we live. In
the process, he raises incisive questions about the meaning of
community, citizenship, and democracy itself.

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À propos de l?auteur

Joseph Varga is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University. Before receiving his doctorate from the New School for Social Research, Varga was a truck driver, forklift operator, and service worker, among other things. He is a long-time labor activist and former Teamster shop steward, and has worked for the IBEW and New York State Working Families Party.

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Éditeur
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1583673482
ISBN 13 
9781583673485
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781583673492: Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914

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ISBN 10 :  1583673490 ISBN 13 :  9781583673492
Editeur : Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2013
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