Description: Further DetailsTitle: Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in DetroitCondition: NewISBN-10: 0691639647EAN: 9780691639642ISBN: 9780691639642Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/19/2016Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 624gAuthor: Lynda Ann EwenGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesBook Series: Princeton Legacy LibraryRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit
Title: Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit
ISBN-10: 0691639647
EAN: 9780691639642
ISBN: 9780691639642
Release Date: 04/19/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 330 Pages
Publication Name: Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics
Author: Lynda Ann Ewen
Item Width: 6.5 in
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Format: Hardcover
