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Beschreibung
Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police raids. In A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities-one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.
Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police raids. In A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities-one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.
Über den Autor
Mark Jay is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Philip Conklin is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

They are coeditors of the literary and political magazine The Periphery.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Marx in Detroit 1
1. A Tale of One City, c. 1913–2018 17
2. Fordism and the So-Called Golden Years, c. 1913–1960 75
3. The Conditions of the Great Rebellion, c. 1960–1967 129
4. Revolutionaries and Counterrevolutionaries, c. 1967–1973 155
5. Post-Fordism and Mass Incarceration, c. 1974–2013 195
Conclusion. Competing Visions for Detroit's New Era 221
Notes 231
Bibliography 285
Index 299
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781478008347
ISBN-10: 1478008342
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jay, Mark
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Jay
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.04.2020
Gewicht: 0,522 kg
Artikel-ID: 123720254

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