Book contents
- Contesting the Postwar City
- Contesting the Postwar City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Contesting Democracy: Working-Class and Growth Politics in the City
- Chapter 1 Milwaukee: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Working-Class City
- Chapter 2 New Deal Legacies and Wartime Urgencies: Housing Politics, Private Enterprise, and Public Authority
- Chapter 3 Wartime Gambling, Working-Class Leisure, and Urban Reform: “Why Do Our Boys Have to Fight If We Can’t Play Bingo?”
- Chapter 4 A Militant CIO Vision for City Democracy: Power, Security, and Egalitarianism
- Chapter 5 Debt, Growth, and Democracy in the Early Postwar City: Planning a City without Class
- Chapter 6 Housing the Postwar City: Crowding, Race, and Policy
- Chapter 7 Public Housing, Redevelopment, and Urban Citizenship: The 1951 Referendum Fight
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Index
Chapter 3 - Wartime Gambling, Working-Class Leisure, and Urban Reform: “Why Do Our Boys Have to Fight If We Can’t Play Bingo?”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013
- Contesting the Postwar City
- Contesting the Postwar City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Contesting Democracy: Working-Class and Growth Politics in the City
- Chapter 1 Milwaukee: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Working-Class City
- Chapter 2 New Deal Legacies and Wartime Urgencies: Housing Politics, Private Enterprise, and Public Authority
- Chapter 3 Wartime Gambling, Working-Class Leisure, and Urban Reform: “Why Do Our Boys Have to Fight If We Can’t Play Bingo?”
- Chapter 4 A Militant CIO Vision for City Democracy: Power, Security, and Egalitarianism
- Chapter 5 Debt, Growth, and Democracy in the Early Postwar City: Planning a City without Class
- Chapter 6 Housing the Postwar City: Crowding, Race, and Policy
- Chapter 7 Public Housing, Redevelopment, and Urban Citizenship: The 1951 Referendum Fight
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Contesting the Postwar CityWorking-Class and Growth Politics in 1940s Milwaukee, pp. 110 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013