Mark Jay

A People's History of Detroit

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police raids. In A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities-one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781478008347
• ISBN-10: 1478008342
• Artikelnr.: 56976353

Autorenporträt

Mark Jay and Philip Conklin

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Marx in Detroit  1
1. A Tale of One City, c. 1913–2018  17
2. Fordism and the So-Called Golden Years, c. 1913–1960  75
3. The Conditions of the Great Rebellion, c. 1960–1967  129
4. Revolutionaries and Counterrevolutionaries, c. 1967–1973  155
5. Post-Fordism and Mass Incarceration, c. 1974–2013  195
Conclusion. Competing Visions for Detroit's New Era  221
Notes  231
Bibliography  285
Index  299