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Informationen zum Autor Lisa M. Fine! is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is the author of Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago! 1870-1930 (Temple)! and co-editor! with Mary Anderson! Kathleen Geissler! and Joyce Ladenson of Doing Feminism: Teaching and Research in the Academy. Klappentext Urban historians have long portrayed surburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled with the introduction of streetcars that enabled the middle class to leave the city for the more sylvan surrounding regions. Demonstrating that this is only a partial version of urban history, Manufacturing Suburbs reclaims the now nearly lost history of working-class suburbs by examining the development of industrial suburbs in the United States and Canada between 1850 and 1950. Contributors demonstrate that these suburbs developed in large part because of the location of manufacturing beyond city limits and the subsequent building of housing for the workers who labored within those factories. Through case studies of industrial suburbanization and suburbs in several metropolitan areas (Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Montreal), Manufacturing Suburbs sheds light on a key phenomenon of metropolitan development before the Second World War. Zusammenfassung The Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of themselves as part of a factory family. This book tells the Reo story from the workers' perspective on the vast social, economic, and political changes that took place in the first three quarters of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introducing Reo Joe in Lansing! Michigan 1. Making Reo and Reo Joe in Lansing! 1880-1929 2. Reo Joe and His Big Factory Family! 1904-1929 3. Reo Joe's New Deal! 1924-1939 4. Reo Rebellions! 1939-1951: Wars! Women! and Wobblies 5. A Cold War Factory Family 6. The "Fall" of Reo! 1955-1975 Epilogue: Reo of the Mind Appendix: Tables Notes Index ...
