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Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city /

Tallennettuna:
Päätekijä: Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963- (Tekijä)
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Aiheet:
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Poor > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Labor movement > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • Introduction
  • Beyond racial polarization: political complexity in the city and labor movement of the 1950s
  • Optimism and crisis in the new liberal metropolis
  • Driving desperation on the auto shop floor
  • Citizens, politicians, and the escalating war for Detroit's civic future
  • Workers, officials, and the escalating war for Detroit's labor future
  • From battles on city streets to clashes in the courtroom
  • From fights for union office to wildcats in the workplace
  • Urban realignment and labor retrenchment: an end to Detroit's war at home
  • Conclusion: civic transformation and labor movement decline in postwar urban America
  • Epilogue.

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