The making of the American creative class : New York's culture workers and twentieth-century consumer capitalism

White-collar work, the culture industries, and the origins of the creative class -- The emergence of white-collar unionism in New York's culture industries -- Challenging the culture of consumer capitalism -- Designing radicalism: the popular front, modernist aesthetics, and the problem of patronage -- New York's white-collar unions during the second world war and reconversion -- The cold war in New York's culture industries -- Creativity and consumerism in the affluent society -- The cultural deindustrialization of New York.