The problem of jobs: liberalism, race, and deindustrialization in Philadelphia
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1. Verfasser: McKee, Guian A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
Schriftenreihe:Historical studies of urban America
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-369) and index
Acknowledgments; Introduction Liberals, Race, and Jobs in Postwar Philadelphia; Chapter 1. Economic Crisis and Local Liberalism; Chapter 2. Good Medicine for Philadelphia? Local Industrial Policy and the Problem of Jobs; Chapter 3. "Economic development is but a means": The War on Poverty and Local Economic Planning; Chapter 4. "We are going to protest and prepare": Civil Rights and the Origins of OIC; Chapter 5. "All 200 million of us are going to make it": The Rise of OIC; Chapter 6. "We had to create jobs": The OIC-Progress Movement and Community Capitalism
Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rather than the national, level. With a focus on Philadelphia, this volume illuminates the central role of these local political and policy struggles in shaping the fortunes of city and citizen alike. In the process, it tells the remarkable story of how Philadelphia's policymakers and community activists energetically worked to challenge deindustrializa
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