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

"In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and for equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions in Detroit, Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.