The literature on urban change in the late twentieth century is vast, but Saskia Sassen's The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton, 1991) is an excellent starting point. Also useful is Joshua Freeman, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II (New York, 2000).
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The view of immigrants as autonomous individuals came from Oscar Handlin's foundational book, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People (Boston, 1951). John Bodnar's The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (Bloomington, 1985) helped shift the emphasis to migration chains and social networks. On immigrant networks and jobs, see Roger Waldinger, Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York (Cambridge, 1996).
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A starting point for the voluminous literature on race and labor is the work of August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, especially Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW (New York, 1979). Also see Bruce Nelson, Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (Princeton, 2001).
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Although there are many histories of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from this period, the starting point is Robert Zieger, The CIO, 1935-1955 (Chapel Hill, 1995).
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An excellent introduction to unions in the cold war period is Steven Rosswurm , ed., The CIO's Left-led Unions ( New Brunswick, 1992).
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Jefferson Cowie deals extensively with capital mobility in Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-year Quest for Cheap Labor (Ithaca, 1999).
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This critique of white students taking over a movement of supposed inferiors also emerges in Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge, 1981).
