Urban Crises in American in the Sixties

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This paper is a critical review of Ira Katznelson's definition of urban crises, his account of the class order and group relations in America and the solutions he offers for the urban crises in America.

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"Katznelson doesn't start by examining the heterogenous, working-class Washington Heights-Inwood community which he studies in the rest of the book. Rather he discusses the development of the working class in the period after rapid industrialization in eighteenth century London. He says that one of the main aspects of the new industrialized order was "a new kind of social crisis that was associated with the emergence of a cycle of boom and bust" (43). Work and community began to separate, greatly altering economic and social experience. At work, people saw themselves primarily as laborers whereas at home they saw themselves primarily through ethnic and territorial lenses."

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