{"product_id":"hells-kitchen-and-the-battle-for-urban-space-class-struggle-and-progressive-reform-in-new-york-city-1894-1914-paperback","title":"Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph J. Varga\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHell's Kitchen is among Manhattan's most storied and studied\u003cbr\u003eneighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West\u003cbr\u003eSide's middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted\u003cbr\u003ethe focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers.\u003cbr\u003eNow, Joseph Varga takes us on a tour of Hell's Kitchen\u003cbr\u003ewith an eye toward what we usually take for granted: space, and, \u003cbr\u003eparticularly, how urban spaces are produced, controlled, and contested\u003cbr\u003eby different class and political forces.\u003cbr\u003eVarga examines events and locations in a crucial period in the\u003cbr\u003eformation of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, the Progressive Era, \u003cbr\u003eand describes how reformers sought to shape the behavior and experiences\u003cbr\u003eof its inhabitants by manipulating the built environment.\u003cbr\u003eBut those inhabitants had plans of their own, and thus ensued\u003cbr\u003ea struggle over the very spaces--public and private, commercial\u003cbr\u003eand personal--in which they lived. Varga insightfully considers the\u003cbr\u003einteractions between human actors, the built environment, and\u003cbr\u003ethe natural landscape, and suggests how the production of and\u003cbr\u003estruggle over space influence what we think and how we live. In\u003cbr\u003ethe process, he raises incisive questions about the meaning of\u003cbr\u003ecommunity, citizenship, and democracy itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Varga\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9.31 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51800151621920,"sku":"9781583673485","price":34.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d15fee708e0a150dfc8b9b58afa15eb3.webp?v=1780834446","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/hells-kitchen-and-the-battle-for-urban-space-class-struggle-and-progressive-reform-in-new-york-city-1894-1914-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}