David Rothman, Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and its Alternatives in Progressive America (1980)
William Graebner, The History of Retirement (1980) (example of age-grading of society; still a very understudied area)
Gerald Grob, Mental Institutions in America (1973) (shows how process of institutionalization created profession of psychiatry – very good at showing process)
Charles Rosenberg, The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (1987) (also emph stigmatizing distinction between public and private)
Eric Schneider, In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston (1992)
Rosemary Stevens, In Sickness and in Wealth: Hospitals in the Twentieth Century (1989)
Viviana Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child (1993)
Urban History, Urban Infrastructure (Margaret O'Mara)
After reading about Progressive era urban infrastructure et al in Rodgers, you may be interested in the following other readings in urban history (US-focused, largely pre-1945)
URBANIZATION AND HISTORY
Monkkonen, Eric H. America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780‑1980. Berkeley: California, 1988.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. “The City in American History.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 27 (June 1940): 43-66.
Tilly, Charles. “What Good Is Urban History?” Journal of Urban History 22 (1996) 702-19.
Wade, Richard C. The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities, 1790-1830. Harvard, 1959.
SPACE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York: Norton, 1992.
Hershberg, Theodore, ed. Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family, and Group Experience in the Nineteenth Century. New York: 1981.
Katz, Michael B., Michael K. Doucet, and Mark J. Stern. The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge: Harvard, 1981.
Katznelson, Ira. City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States. New York: Pantheon, 1981.
Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. New York: Oxford, 1986.
Zunz, Olivier. The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants
in Detroit, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1982.
AND I'LL ADD THESE TWO (POST WWII) (Steve Beda)
Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (London: Verso, 2006).
Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princton: Princeton University Press, 2003)
URBAN LANDSCAPES
Boyer, M. Christine. Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning. Cambridge: Harvard, 1983.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. Landscapes: Selected Writings. New York, 1970.
Page, Max. The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1999.
Shammas, Carole. “The Space Problem in Early United States Cities.” William and Mary Quarterly 57: 3 (July 2000), 505-542.
Wilson, William H. The City Beautiful Movement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1989.
THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND MORAL REFORM
Boyer, Paul. Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1880-1920. Cambridge: Harvard, 1978.
Meranze, Michael. Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1996.
Ryan, Mary. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: California, 1997.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Religion and the Rise of the American City: The New York City Mission Movement, 1812-1870. Ithaca: Cornell, 1971.
INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOUSING
Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, 1987.
Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1999.
Tarr, Joel A. The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. Akron: University of Akron, 1996.
Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900. Cambridge: Harvard, 1962.
Cross-Class Alliances (Steve Beda)
Just read this and thought it was important in relation to Swenson:
Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), esp. Ch. 3 "A Labor-Management Accord?"
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