The Problem of Jobs
Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia
- Contents
- Review Quotes

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
“Deeply and impressively researched, The Problem of Jobs offers an important corrective to the relentless narrative of policy failure and frustration one gets from looking at urban policy from the federal perspective or from the perspective of the ideological right. Especially notable is Guian McKee’s focus on how Philadelphia perceived, experienced, and attempted to forestall transformations that were threatening its economic livelihood—a dimension of the urban crisis that is widely recognized but rarely understood as something more than historical inevitability, and still more rarely recognized as an arena for local policy innovation.”
Economics and Business: Business--Industry and Labor | Economics--Urban and Regional
History: American History | Urban History
Political Science: Urban Politics
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