Author: Clarence H. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Career biography of the General Motors executive and his influence in the growth of the city of Flint, Michigan.
Foundation for Living
Author: Clarence H. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Career biography of the General Motors executive and his influence in the growth of the city of Flint, Michigan.
Charles Stewart Mott
Author: Frank J. ManleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Paper describing Mott and his accomplishments.
Charles Stewart Mott of Applewood
Author: Robert G. SchaferPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flint (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Life of Charles Stewart Mott
Author: Edward RenehanPublisher: University of Michigan Regional
ISBN: 9780472131723
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A biography of a global force for positive change in education, civil society, and the environment
Michigan History
Author: Demolition Means Progress
Author: Andrew R. HighsmithPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022641955X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Flint, Michigan, is widely seen as Detroit s Detroit: the perfect embodiment of a ruined industrial economy and a shattered American dream. In this deeply researched book, Andrew Highsmith gives us the first full-scale history of Flint, showing that the Vehicle City has always seen demolition as a tool of progress. During the 1930s, officials hoped to renew the city by remaking its public schools into racially segregated community centers. After the war, federal officials and developers sought to strengthen the region by building subdivisions in Flint s segregated suburbs, while GM executives and municipal officials demolished urban factories and rebuilt them outside the city. City leaders later launched a plan to replace black neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. Each of these campaigns, Highsmith argues, yielded an ever more impoverished city and a more racially divided metropolis. By intertwining histories of racial segregation, mass suburbanization, and industrial decline, Highsmith gives us a deeply unsettling look at urban-industrial America."
A Town Abandoned
Author: Steven P. DandaneauPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438400454
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Hometown to both General Motors and the United Auto Workers, and the setting for the documentary film Roger and Me, Flint, Michigan, is a striking example of a declining city in America's Rust Belt. A Town Abandoned examines Flint's response to its own social and economic decline and at the same time pursues a broad analysis of class and culture in America's late capitalist society. It tells the story of how Flint's local institutions and citizens interpret and rationalize their city's massive auto-industry job loss and consequent decline, and it relates these interpretations to statewide, national, and international forces that led to the deindustrialization. Using a critical-theory approach, Dandaneau reveals the futility of Flint's efforts to confront essentially global problems and moreover depicts the disturbing conceptual and cultural distortions that result from its sustained powerlessness. Dandaneau shows that all policy solutions to Flint's problems were in essence public relations solutions, and he gives a moving portrayal of the consequences for local communities of the internationalization of American business.
Foundation for Living
Author: Clarence H. YoungPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018605708
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Philanthropic Foundations in the Twentieth Century
Author: Joseph C. KigerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313096074
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In a readable, coherent, and succinct account, Kiger surveys the changes that have taken place in U.S. foundations in the 20th century and describes our foundations as they exist today. Opening with historical information on the emergence of large foundations at the beginning of the century, the book discusses the major characteristics of foundations, emphasizing that they are organized to give away rather than make money, and identifies and discusses the major changes since 1950. In considering those changes, the book considers such topics as growth and expansion, diversification in the makeup of trustees and staff, and governmental oversight and supervision. In the increasing movement of foundations into the international sphere, the book covers their international activities and the formation and operation of international centers and groups associated with them. Phlanthropic Foundations in the Twentieth Century provides a useful overview of the growth, development, and operation of foundations.
Storied Independent Automakers
Author: Charles K. HydePublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814340865
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Auto historians and readers interested in business history will enjoy Storied Independent Automakers.