James Wolfinger: 2 books
Philadelphia Divided
Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In a detailed study of life and politics in Philadelphia between the 1930s and the 1950s, James Wolfinger demonstrates how racial tensions in working-class neighborhoods and job sites shaped the contours of mid-twentieth-century liberal and conservative politics. As racial divisions fractured the...
Running the Rails
Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of conflict between the workers and management at one of the nation’s largest privately owned transit systems. In Running the Rails, James Wolfinger uses...