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Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city / Heather Ann Thompson.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.

Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Purdy-Kresge Library	F 574 .D457 T48 2001	CHECKED IN

Description	viii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-277) and index.
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.
Subject	African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
	Urban 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.
ISBN	080143520X (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC #	47364038

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