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1  Up From the Streets

Up From the Streets
Detroit Art from the Duffy Warehouse Collection

Edited by Jeffrey Abt
Published 2002
$25.00L (Paper) - 9780971097315

A beautifully illustrated catalog highlighting the works of noted artists from Detroit’s Cass Corridor brought together for an exhibition in honor of Detroit’s 300th birthday.

2 A Museum on the Verge

A Museum on the Verge
A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000

By Jeffrey Abt
Published 2001
$34.95s (Cloth) - 9780814328415

Now Jeffrey Abt tells how the DIA has had to struggle to maintain its fine art collection with barely enough income to remain open.

3 A History of Wayne State University in Photographs

A History of Wayne State University in Photographs
By Evelyn Aschenbrenner
Foreword by Bill McGraw
Introduction by Charles K. Hyde
Published April 2009
$39.95t (Cloth) - 9780814332825

Showcases the founding, development, and growth of Wayne State University, Michigan’s third largest public university, in historical photographs.

4  Working Detroit

Working Detroit
By Steve Babson
Published 1986
$24.95s (Paper) - 9780814318195

Babson recounts Detroit's odyssey from a bulwark of the "open shop" to the nation's foremost "union town."

5  Confronting Change

Confronting Change
Auto Labor and Lean Production in North America

Edited by Huberto Juarez Nunez and Steve Babson
Published 1998
$24.95s (Paper) - 9780814328194

Autoworkers find themselves in a rapidly changing world as transnational corporations seek new forms of work organization and new boundaries for a North American auto industry

6  Lean Work

Lean Work
Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry

Edited by Steve Babson
Published 1995
$29.95s (Paper) - 9780814325353

Lean Work examines the controversial Japanese model of "lean production" and its impact on work and workers in the global auto industry.

7  Under Michigan

Under Michigan
The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils

By Charles Ferguson Barker
Published 2005
$17.95t (Cloth) - 9780814330883

An exciting trip below the surface of Michigan’s rocks and fossils.

8 The Aging of the American Workforce

The Aging of the American Workforce
Problems, Programs, Policies

Edited by John D. Owen, Rhonda J. V. Montgomery and Irving Bluestone
Foreword by Ann McLaughlin
Published 1990
$29.95s (Paper) - 9780814321751

Papers based on presentations at a conference held at Wayne State University in Detroit in March 1988.

9  Abandon Automobile

Abandon Automobile
Detroit City Poetry 2001

Edited by Melba Joyce Boyd and M. L. Liebler
Published 2001
$22.95L (Paper) - 9780814328101
$44.95s (Cloth) - 9780814329733

A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present.

10  Discarded Legacy

Discarded Legacy
Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911

By Melba Joyce Boyd
Published 1994
$19.95s (Paper) - 9780814324899
$44.95s (Cloth) - 9780814324882

In essence, she has written a "bio-critical study," a very personal account of a poet representing and presenting a poet.

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