Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city / Heather Ann Thompson.
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Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2001.
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Physical Description: | viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: reassessing the fate of postwar cities, politics and labor
- 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.