This dissertation helps us to understand what financialization looked and felt like on the ground.
Yuppies, it argues, became the shock troops for the financialization of American life.
It also visited dire consequences on cities like New York. In the 1980s, the growth of finance transformed the way that white-collar Americans worked. This dissertation reveals how the emergence of a class of highly-educated professionals-young urban professionals, or “yuppies”- transformed New York City, fostered new forms of work, leisure, and politics, and, ultimately, helped to produce America’s current age of inequality. Yuppies: Young Urban Professionals and the Making of Postindustrial New York Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Princeton University Undergraduate Senior Theses, 1924-2023 Princeton University Masters Theses, 2022-2023 Princeton University Doctoral Dissertations, 2011-2023 Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures