Whose Detroit? : : Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
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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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PUBLISHED
Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Year Published: 2001
Description: 295 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
080143520X
0801488842
SUBJECTS
African Americans -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Detroit -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Urban poor -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
Labor movement -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
Rural-urban migration -- History -- 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.