During the past 20 years, historians have made great strides in studying the engagement of rural communities with the formation of nations and states in nineteenth-century Latin America. The ...formation of citizenship, popular liberalism, local pueblo sovereignty, and alternative nationalisms and the influence of local struggles on state institutions have all been plotted, from very local communities to regions. However, the recent emphasis on the integration of peasant communities into regional and national history has largely failed to highlight the importance of provincial cities, even as it gives ample evidence of how important they became as bridges between the local, the regional, and the national.
From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York ...and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New York's labor history anew.City of Workers, City of Strugglebrings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, daily life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have developed formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be like and whom it should be for. The book goes beyond the largely white, male wage workers in mainstream labor organizations who have dominated the history of labor movements to look at enslaved people, indentured servants, domestic workers, sex workers, day laborers, and others who have had to fight not only their masters and employers but also labor groups that often excluded them. Through their stories-how they fought for inclusion or developed their own ways to advance-it recenters labor history for contemporary struggles.City of Workers, City of Struggleoffers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities.In association with the exhibitionCity of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor
Movements Changed New Yorkat the Museum of the City of New York
During the past 20 years, historians have made great strides in studying the engagement of rural communities with the formation of nations and states in nineteenth-century Latin America. The ...formation of citizenship, popular liberalism, local pueblo sovereignty, and alternative nationalisms and the influence of local struggles on state institutions have all been plotted, from very local communities to regions. However, the recent emphasis on the integration of peasant communities into regional and national history has largely failed to highlight the importance of provincial cities, even as it gives ample evidence of how important they became as bridges between the local, the regional, and the national.
Instances of violence in the Indian communities of late-nineteenth-century El Salvador have often been cited as evidence of popular opposition to the liberal state and resistance to the privatization ...of Indian-held lands. Lauria-Santiago discusses one such instance, which occurred in 1898, when simmering resentments in the Indian community of Dolores Izalco in El Salvador erupted in violent confrontation.
People from Puerto Rico have been part of New York City since the late 19th century, when commerce linked the United States to the Caribbean and political exile brought pro-independence leaders to ...the city. Migration expanded after the United States invaded Puerto Rico in 1898 as part of its imperial expansion and kept it as an unincorporated colonial territory. United States rule brought the island into imperial administrative, commercial, and financial networks based on the Eastern seaboard. Between 1898 and 1917 migration to New York was mostly a trickle of middle-class merchants and white-collar workers involved in the growing commercial
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