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Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Liberals, Race, and Jobs in Postwar Philadelphia
• Ch. 1. Economic Crisis and Local Liberalism
• Ch. 2. Good Medicine for Philadelphia? Local Industrial Policy and the Problem of Jobs
• Ch. 3. "Economic development is but a means": The War on Poverty and Local Economic Planning
• Ch. 4. "We are going to protest and prepare": Civil Rights and the Origins of OIC
• Ch. 5. "All 200 million of us are going to make it": The Rise of OIC
• Ch. 6. "We had to create jobs": The OIC-Progress Movement and Community Capitalism
• Ch. 7. The Philadelphia Plan: Affirmative Action and the Problem of Jobs
• Ch. 8. "You'll never pull it off in this city": Model Cities, Racial Conflict, and Local Industrial Policy
• Conclusion: And All the World Was Philadelphia.

Author/Creator:

McKee, Guian A.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The problem of jobs: liberalism, race, and deindustrialization in Philadelphia [by McKee, G.A.]

Related Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Subjects:

Manpower policy — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History — 20th century

Job creation — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History — 20th century

Philadelphia (Pa.) — Politics and government — 1865-

Since 1865

Job creation

Politics and government

Manpower policy

Pennsylvania — Philadelphia

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-369) and index.

Physical Description:

ix, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

HD5726.P5 M35 2008

ISBNs:

9780226560120 (cloth, alk. paper)
0226560120 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008015837

OCLC Numbers:

225846695