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""By showing how both the grievances and the aspirations of even the most locally bound workers were tied up with dense, shifting layers of global industrial transformation and national political intrigue, Berger has offered us a model of labor, working-class, and urban history that should be read for decades to come.""-- ""Labor"" ""The book is a local history, thick with mentions and stories of both public actors and ordinary people known only to family and friends. It contextualizes their conditions and activism in the national economy, cultural trends, and, centrally, federal policy that influenced the availability of money to the city...Historians, policy analysts, urban scholars and practitioners, and Baltimoreans will find much of interest in this book. But they will not escape its disturbing lesson. American cultural and institutionalized assumptions about race limit Blacks' opportunities and challenge their dignity. And those who make public policy seem to have greater stakes in maintaining these conditions than ending them.""-- ""Journal of Urban Affiairs""

""By showing how both the grievances and the aspirations of even the most locally bound workers were tied up with dense, shifting layers of global industrial transformation and national political intrigue, Berger has offered us a model of labor, working-class, and urban history that should be read for decades to come."" - Labor ""The book is a local history, thick with mentions and stories of both public actors and ordinary people known only to family and friends. It contextualizes their conditions and activism in the national economy, cultural trends, and, centrally, federal policy that influenced the availability of money to the city...Historians, policy analysts, urban scholars and practitioners, and Baltimoreans will find much of interest in this book. But they will not escape its disturbing lesson. American cultural and institutionalized assumptions about race limit Blacks' opportunities and challenge their dignity. And those who make public policy seem to have greater stakes in maintaining these conditions than ending them."" - Journal of Urban Affiairs ""Jane Berger's essential book is an academic achievement. . . . It helps us understand not only the history of Charm City but also how neoliberal shifts in American political economy stymied the broader struggle of African Americans for racial equality and economic security. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the struggle for racial equality and economic security."" - Journal of American History

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Jane Berger is Associate Professor of History at Moravian University.

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