Format:
1 online resource (412 pages)
ISBN:
9781107248816
Content:
Focusing on mid-century Milwaukee, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the remaking of political culture in the industrial city of the 1940s.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contesting Democracy: Working-Class and Growth Politics in the City -- Chapter 1: Milwaukee: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Working-Class City -- Chapter 2: New Deal Legacies and Wartime Urgencies: Housing Politics, Private Enterprise, and Public Authority -- Chapter 3: Wartime Gambling, Working-Class Leisure, and Urban Reform: "Why Do Our Boys Have to Fight If We Can't Play Bingo?" -- Chapter 4: A Militant CIO Vision for City Democracy: Power, Security, and Egalitarianism -- Chapter 5: Debt, Growth, and Democracy in the Early Postwar City: Planning a City without Class -- Chapter 6: Housing the Postwar City: Crowding, Race, and Policy -- Chapter 7: Public Housing, Redevelopment, and Urban Citizenship: The 1951 Referendum Fight -- Epilogue: Revisiting Postwar Democracy: A City with Class -- Appendix: Tables: Referenda Votes -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107036352
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107036352
Language:
English
Keywords:
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1357365
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