May Day: Working-Class New York with author Joshua B. Freeman

Joshua B. Freeman, author of WORKING-CLASS NEW YORK, and attorney David Goldberg discuss the history of labor in New York City for International Workers’ Day. New York City was once the envied model of liberal America and the scourge of conservatives everywhere: cheap and easy-to-use mass transit, work in small businesses and factories that had good wages and benefits, affordable public housing, and healthcare for all. In WORKING-CLASS NEW YORK, Freeman shows how New York City evolved into the city we know today. It's going to be a fascinating discussion with one of the preeminent scholars of New York City