Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit
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Bourgeoisie
Bureaucrat
Business manager
Business unionism
Capital control
Capitalism
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Class conflict
Corporate capitalism
Corporate liberalism
Corporation
Detroit
Detroit City Council
Detroit Club
Detroit Free Press
Detroit Public Library
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Downtown Detroit
Economy of the United States
Employment
Energy crisis
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Federal Housing Administration
Financial crisis
Financial distress
Flint sit-down strike
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Government of Detroit
Housing authority
Housing development
Ideology
Industrial relations
Industrial Workers of the World
Iron law of oligarchy
Karl Marx
Knights of Labor
Labor history of the United States
Law firm
Marxism
Metro Detroit
Michigan Bell
Michigan Car Company
Michigan Territory
Monopoly Capital
National Bank of Detroit
Ownership
Political economy
Political revolution
Racism
Real estate appraisal
Robber baron (industrialist)
Slumlord
Social class
Social class in the United States
Social engineering (political science)
Social revolution
Tax
The Business Council
The Detroit News
The Modern Corporation and Private Property
Trade union
Unemployment
Union busting
United Automobile Workers
Urban renewal
Urban sprawl
Wayne State University
Wealth
Whip inflation now
Working class
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- ISBN 9780691611648
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Lynda Ann Ewen offers the first thoroughgoing Marxist-Leninist analysis, based on primary research, of the structure and dynamics of class relations and corporate power in a major U.S. metropolitan area. She contends that Detroit's urban crisis is not a temporary aberration in a good system run amuck, but the logical result of years of social planning and the use of human and natural resources for the benefit of the few. In general, analyses of the problems in American society have endorsed capitalist ideals and assumptions. Nevertheless, these analyses and the reform measures that have accompanied them in the past decade have done little to alleviate the plight of the cities. To determine what action should now be taken, Professor Ewen focuses on the development of class conflict in the United States and its manifestations in Detroit. The author analyzes kinship and also ownership and control of the major firms in Detroit. The contradictions that led to the urban crisis, she concludes, are inherent in the fundamental nature of a class society, in which the social means of production are privately owned by an elite group who must produce profits at all costs.
She argues that to protect its interests and prepare the way for socialism, the working class requires a grasp of its historical and present opposition to the ruling class. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
