Downriver Detroit: The Working Class, the Environment, and the Bonds of Place (Working Class in American History) - Hardcover

Fine, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252046943 ISBN 13: 9780252046940

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252046943
• ISBN 13: 9780252046940
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande