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

Fine, Lisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252089081 ISBN 13 : 9780252089084

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2026

Synopsis

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, communities in the Downriver region of the Detroit River have forged an enduring claim to the well-being of waterways that are central to where they live, work, and play.

Lisa M. Fine examines important moments in the ongoing efforts of the area's citizens to create a humane and habitable environment. Her analysis shows how people preserved wetlands and the river by working through sportsmen's organizations, appealing to state agencies, and forming grassroots movements. Fueled by enduring connections to place, local unions fought a proposed nuclear power plant in the 1950s. Years later, steel workers facing the steamroller of deindustrialization tried to preserve their communities by purchasing their own company. The ties that bind gave a unique character to activism in the Downriver region, challenging stereotypes of working-class attitudes toward the environment.

A creative merger of labor and environmental history, Downriver Detroit shows that working people have a right to live in and protect the places they love.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lisa M. Fine is a professor of history at Michigan State University. She is the author of The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A., and coeditor of the Norton fiftieth anniversary edition of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252089081
• ISBN 13: 9780252089084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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