Problem of Jobs - Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia

Informationen zum Autor Guian McKee is associate professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. Klappentext Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rather than the national, level. With a focus on Philadelphia, this volume illuminates the central role of these local political and policy struggles in shaping the fortunes of city and citizen alike. In the process, it tells the remarkable story of how Philadelphia's policymakers and community activists energetically worked to challenge deindustrialization through an innovative series of job retention initiatives, training programs, inner-city business development projects, and early affirmative action programs. Without ignoring the failure of Philadelphians to combat institutionalized racism, Guian McKee's account of their surprising success draws a portrait of American liberalism that evinces a potency not usually associated with the postwar era. Ultimately interpreting economic decline as an arena for intervention rather than a historical inevitability, The Problem of Jobs serves as a timely reminder of policy's potential to combat injustice.

Product details

• Authors: Guian A McKee, Guian A. Mckee, McKee Guian A.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780226598420
• ISBN: 978-0-226-59842-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am; Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban America (CHUP)
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Urban communities, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General