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Contesting the Postwar City - Working-Class and Growth Politics in 1940s Milwaukee (Paperback)
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Contesting the Postwar City - Working-Class and Growth Politics in 1940s Milwaukee (Paperback)
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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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