Eric Fure-Slocum

Contesting the Postwar City (eBook, PDF)

Working-Class and Growth Politics in 1940s Milwaukee

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on mid-century 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 and policy clashes. Contests that pitted the principles of democratic access and distribution against efficiency and productivity included the hard-fought politics of housing and redevelopment, controversies over petty gambling, questions about the role of organized labor in urban life, and battles over municipal fiscal policy and autonomy. These episodes occurred during a time of rapid change in the city's working class, as African-American workers arrived to seek jobs, women temporarily advanced in workplaces, and labor unions grew. At the same time, businesses and property owners sought to re-establish legitimacy in the changing landscape. This study examines these local conflicts, showing how they forged the postwar city and laid a foundation for the neoliberal city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107240674
• Artikelnr.: 39025166

Autorenporträt

Eric Fure-Slocum teaches History and American Studies at St Olaf College. His research and writing focuses on twentieth-century US urban and working-class history, with an interest in the shaping of American political culture and the political economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: contesting democracy: working-class and growth politics in the city; 1. Milwaukee: a mid-twentieth-century working-class city; 2. New Deal legacies and wartime urgencies: housing politics
private enterprise
and public authority; 3. Wartime gambling
working-class leisure
and urban reform: 'why do our boys have to fight if we can't play bingo?'; 4. A militant CIO vision for city democracy: power
security
and egalitarianism; 5. Debt
growth
and democracy in the early postwar city; 6. Housing the postwar city: crowding
race
and policy; 7. Public housing
redevelopment
and urban citizenship: the 1951 referendum fight; Epilogue: revising postwar democracy: a city with class.