Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
5. 1. No There There: Social Movements and Urban Political Community 1
6. 2. Corporate Power and Ethnic Patronage: Machine Politics in Oakland 24
7. 3. The Making of a White Middle Class: The Ku Klux Klan and Urban Reform 50
8. 4. Economic Crisis and Class Hegemony: The Rule of Downtown 73
9. 5. Working-Class Collective Agency: The General Strike and Labor Insurgency 96
10. 6. Reconstituting the Urban Regime: Redevelopment and the Central City 120
11. 7. Bureaucratic Insulation and Racial Conflict: The Challenge of Black Power 145
12. 8. From Social Movements to Social Change: Oakland and Twentieth-Century Urban America 173
13. Methodological Appendix: Telling Stories about Actors and Events 201
14. Notes 209
15. Bibliography 265
16. Index 293