Tales from the Reuther Library

著者: Walter P. Reuther Library Wayne State University
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Stories on labor history, Detroit, and Wayne State University
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  • When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
    2024/10/17
    Dr. Felicia George explains how number lotteries in the city’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods in the 20th century, although illegal and rife with exploitation, also raised some Black Detroiters out of poverty and created an important social support in a community stressed by racial discrimination and job insecurity. Dr. George is an adjunct … Continue reading When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
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    26 分
  • Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008
    2024/09/03
    Dr. Jesse Chanin describes how the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) gained power and influence in a region hostile to unions from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s by building trust in the community with transparent and democratic decision-making and a focus on racial and economic justice to improve the lives of the New Orleans … Continue reading Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008
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    47 分
  • Detroit Industry and ‘The Mural’
    2024/07/25
    Dr. Jay Cephas considers two Depression-era murals in Detroit and their contrasting messaging about workers, labor, and power. Diego Rivera’s famed Detroit Industry murals, commissioned by Edsel Ford for the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1932, champions industrial and technological progress and the factory workers who fueled it. In contrast, Walter Speck and Barbara Wilson’s … Continue reading Detroit Industry and ‘The Mural’
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    32 分

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