Focusing on mid-century Milwaukee, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the remaking of political culture in the industrial city of the 1940s. Num Pages: 408 pages, 23 b/w illus. 2 maps 17 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708. . 2013. New. hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Contesting the Postwar City: Working-Class and Growth Politics in 1940s Milwaukee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1107036356
ISBN 13: 9781107036352
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Focusing on midcentury 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 reestablish 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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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.

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