The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920

Originally published in 1983, The Changing Face of Inequality is the first systematic social history of a major American city undergoing industrialization. Zunz examines Detroit's evolution between 1880 and 1920 and discovers the ways in which ethnic and class relations profoundly altered its urban scene. Stunning in scope, this work makes a major contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century cities.

Olivier Zunz is the Commonwealth Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has held visiting appointments at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Collège de France. He is the author of Why the American Century?, and Making America Corporate, 1870-1920, both published by the University of Chicago Press.