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Downriver Detroit: The Working Class, the Environment, and the Bonds of Place - Couverture rigide

Fine, Lisa

 
9780252046940: Downriver Detroit: The Working Class, the Environment, and the Bonds of Place
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0252046943 ISBN 13 : 9780252046940
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2026

Synopsis

This exploration of an industrial suburb south of Detroit takes seriously the connections to place and the natural world among the working-class people who lived, worked, and played in the region. After a consideration of this type of analysis and demographic and environmental features of this highly industrialized region, each chapter considers a different topic or episode in the on-going efforts of the working-class citizens to create a humane and habitable community. Efforts to combat environmental pollution in this highly industrialized region predate the start of the environmental movement. When working-class people worked to pursue clean water or preserve precious marsh lands along the Detroit River and its tributaries, they worked through sportsmen's organizations, appealed to state agencies, or engaged in grass roots organizing. Local unions objected to the building of an atomic power plant in the regions in the1950s. And, amidst the challenges of deindustrialization, one group of steel workers attempted to buy their own company to secure their families and communities in the region. When faced with economic and environmental challenges, the working-class of Downriver Detroit expressed an enduring connection to their region, a 'bond of place.'

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À propos de l'auteur

Lisa M. Fine is chair and professor of history at Michigan State University. She is the author of The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930 (Temple, 1990) and The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, USA (Temple, 2004).

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252046943
ISBN 13 
9780252046940
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
264
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