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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2003

Joshua B. Freeman
Affiliation:
CUNY Graduate Center

Abstract

A large proportion of the world's workers live in communities on the outskirts of cities, what for the want of a better word we might call suburbs. In different places, such communities take different forms. Working-class districts composed of dense, high-rise dwellings ring many European cities, like Paris and Moscow. By contrast, in the United States, Canada, and Australia, working-class suburbanization has been characterized by single-family homes, low density, and automobile dependency. In Latin America, Turkey, and parts of Africa, sprawling self-built communities of shacks and shanties surround major urban centers (a phenomenon that occurred in some North American cities during the early twentieth century).

Type
Workers, Suburbs, and Labor Geography
Copyright
© 2003 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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