Contesting the postwar city : working-class and growth politics in 1940s Milwaukee /

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Focusing on midcentury Milwaukee, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the remaking of political culture in the industrial city. Professor Fure-Slocum shows how two contending visions of the 1940s city--working-class politics and growth politics--fit together uneasily and were transformed amid a series of social...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fure-Slocum, Eric Jon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
Working class > Political activity > Wisconsin > Milwaukee.
Travailleurs > Activité politique > Wisconsin > Milwaukee.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Economic policy
Working class > Political activity
Milwaukee (Wis.) > Economic policy.
Milwaukee (Wis.) > History > 20th century.
Wisconsin > Milwaukee
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction--Contesting democracy: working-class and growth politics in the city
  • Milwaukee: a mid-twentieth-century working-class city
  • New deal legacies and wartime urgencies: housing politics, private enterprise, and public authority
  • Wartime gambling, working-class leisure, and urban reform: "Why do our boys have to fight if we can't play bingo?"
  • A militant CIO vision for city democracy: power, security, and egalitarianism
  • Debt, growth, and democracy in the early postware city: planning a city without class
  • Housing the postware city: crowding, race, and policy
  • Public housing, redevelopment, and urban citizenship: the 1951 referendum fight
  • Epilogue--Revisiting postware democracy: a city with class.

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