Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Detroit in 1880: Space and Society
1. An Open City
2. Concentration, Dispersion, and Dominance
3. Spatial Bonds: Ethnicity, Class, and Fertility
4. The Urban Quilt: Unequal Autonomy
Part 2. The City-Building Process and the Neighborhood 1880–1900
5. Urban Growth and the Unequal Distribution of Services
6. Neighborhoods, Homes, and the Dual Housing Market
7. The Completeness of the Immigrant Working Class Neighborhood
Part 3. Structures of Inequality Ethnicity and Social Class at the Turn of the Century
8. The Leaders of Detroit’s Industrialization
9. Ethnic Fragmentation of the Working Class
10. Ethnic Endogamy and the Survival Cycle
11. Poverty: Ideology and Reality
Part 4. Detroit in 1920: A New City, Another Society?
12. New Dimensions for a Metropolis and the Dream of a New Society
13. Social and Spatial Cleavages
14. Black and White Newcomers in Working-class Detroit
Conclusion
Appendixes
1. The 1880 and 1900 Samples
2. The 1920 Sample
3. Occupational Classification, 1880, 1900, 1920
4. Measuring Segregation, 1880, 1900, 1920
5. Other Statistical Measurements
6. The Industrial Leaders
7. Note on Sources
Index