The Problem of Jobs

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Liberals, Race, and Jobs in Postwar Philadelphia

1. Economic Crisis and Local Liberalism

2. Good Medicine for Philadelphia? Local Industrial Policy and the Problem of Jobs

3. “Economic development is but a means”: The War on Poverty and Local Economic Planning

4. “We are going to protest and prepare”: Civil Rights and the Origins of OIC

5. “All 200 million of us are going to make it”: The Rise of OIC

6. “We had to create jobs”: The OIC-Progress Movement and Community Capitalism

7. The Philadelphia Plan: Affirmative Action and the Problem of Jobs

8. “You’ll never pull it off in this city”: Model Cities, Racial Conflict, and Local Industrial Policy

Conclusion: And All the World Was Philadelphia

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Index