Chapter 3. “Economic development is but a means”: The War on Poverty and Local Economic Planning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction Liberals, Race, and Jobs in Postwar Philadelphia 1
5. Chapter 1. Economic Crisis and Local Liberalism 18
6. Chapter 2. Good Medicine for Philadelphia? Local Industrial Policy and the Problem of Jobs 41
7. Chapter 3. “Economic development is but a means”: The War on Poverty and Local Economic Planning 83
8. Chapter 4. “We are going to protest and prepare”: Civil Rights and the Origins of OIC 113
9. Chapter 5. “All 200 million of us are going to make it”: The Rise of OIC 137
10. Chapter 6. “We had to create jobs”: The OIC-Progress Movement and Community Capitalism 182
11. Chapter 7. The Philadelphia Plan: Affirmative Action and the Problem of Jobs 211
12. Chapter 8. “You’ll never pull it off in this city”: Model Cities, Racial Conflict, and Local Industrial Policy 249
13. Conclusion And All the World Was Philadelphia 282
14. List of Abbreviations 291
15. Notes 293
16. Index 371