Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City 1501709224, 9781501709227

Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City [With a New Prologue ed.] 9781501712814

With deft attention to the historical background and to the dramatic struggles of Detroit's residents, and with a n

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Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit 9781479877218

Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtram

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Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit 9780226247977

In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit’s Jews played in th

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The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor 046509080X, 9780465090808

A stirring biography of a hero in the struggle for economic justice and a book that probes the question: Whatever happen

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The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor 9780871547170, 9781610447751, 2011053536

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The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics 9780231503938

In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor

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Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit

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The Politics of Labor: A Critique of American Radical Social Thought by a Canadian Labor Spokesman in 1887 9781487583972

T. Phillips Thompson was one of the leading spokesmen of the Canadian labor and socialist movements for over three decad

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City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit 9780812298543

City of Dispossessions argues that the dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans explains the development

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Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City 9781447327899

Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities str

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