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Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War IIera Chicago. Robert Lewiss rich trove of materialdrawn from research on more than six hundred federally funded wartime industrial sites in metropolitan Chicagosupports three major conclusions. First, the relationship of the key institutions of the military-industrial complex was refashioned by their calculative actions on industrial property. The imperatives of war forced the federal state and the military to become involved in industrial matters in an entirely new manner. Second, federal and military investment in defense factories had an enormous effect on the industrial geography of metropolitan Chicago. The channeling of huge lumps of industrial capital into sprawling plants on the urban fringe had a decisive impact on the metropolitan geographies of manufacturing. Third, the success of industrial mobilization was made possible through the multi-scale relations of national and locational interaction. National policy could only be realized by the placing of these relations at the local level.
Throughout, Lewis shows how the interests of developers, factory engineers, corporate executives, politicians, unions, and the working class were intimately bound up with industrial space. Offering a local perspective on a city permanently shaped by national events, this book provides a richer understanding of the dynamics of wartime mobilization, the calculative actions of political and business leaders, the social relations of property, the working of state-industry relations, and the making of industrial space.

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Calculating Property Relations
GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
SERIES EDITORS
Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto
Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
Melissa W. Wright, Pennsylvania State University
ADVISORY BOARD
Mathew Coleman, Ohio State University
Sapana Doshi, University of Arizona
Zeynep Gambetti, Boazii University
Geoff Mann, Simon Fraser University
James McCarthy, Clark University
Beverly Mullings, Queens University
Harvey Neo, National University of Singapore
Geraldine Pratt, University of British Columbia
Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CUNY Graduate Center
Jamie Winders, Syracuse University
Brenda S. A. Yeoh, National University of Singapore
Calculating Property Relations
CHICAGOS WARTIME INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION, 19401950
ROBERT LEWIS
2016 by the University of Georgia Press Athens Georgia 30602 wwwugapressorg - photo 1
2016 by the University of Georgia Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lewis, Robert D., 1954 author.
Title: Calculating property relations : Chicagos wartime industrial mobilization, 19401950 / Robert Lewis.
Description: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2016. | Series: Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 29 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016014715 | ISBN 9780820350127 (hard bound : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780820350134 (paperback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Industrial mobilizationUnited StatesHistory20th century. | Industrial policyUnited StatesHistory20th century. | Military-industrial complexUnited StatesHistory20th century. | World War, 19391945IllinoisChicagoHistory.
Classification: LCC HC110.D4 .L49 2016 | DDC 940.53/1dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016014715
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURES
TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Over the last few years, I have been lucky enough to have enjoyed considerable backing from the departments two chairs. Joe Desloges and Virginia Maclaren are models of how to provide support for academic research and writing. Similarly, department staff membersmost notably Mariange Beaudry, Mary-Marta Briones-Bird, Candace Duong, Nina Duras, Jessica Finlayson, Kathy Giesbrecht, Yvonne Kenny, Marika Maslej, and Dean Robsonhave provided various forms of help over the years. I appreciate their work and patience. I would like to thank Bryon Moldofsky for the maps. A large number of colleagues and friends in Toronto and elsewhere have helped me in one way as I have worked on this book. In particular, I would like to give a special thank-you to Christian Abizaid, Bob Beauregard, Alana Boland, Deb Cowen, Rick DiFrancesco, Mike Ekers, Matt Farish, Gunter Gad, Emily Gilbert, Paul Hess, Richard Harris, Debby Leslie, Ted Muller, Scott Prudham, Katharine Rankin, Andr Sorensen, Matti Siemiatycki, and Dick Walker.
I have been fortunate to have received a four-year operating grant from the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council to undertake the research for this study. Despite the major changes that have taken place to the Council over the years, many of which emerged from having to fight the Harper governments insidious attempts to turn social science work into a technocratic and profit-making business, Canadian scholars can still count on receiving funding for research on a range of intellectual matters. Thanks to all the peopleacademics and administrators alikefor fighting to preserve the integrity of a state-funded grant system.
I am heavily indebted to an excellent group of research assistants. Charlie Strazzeri and Jason Cooke provided able help in the early stages of the research. More recently, Nick Lombardo has provided exceptional assistance, helping me collect and interpret a range of materials in Chicago and Toronto. Patrick Vitale is the only person to have read an entire draft of the manuscript. I owe him a great many thanks for his intellectual insights, numerous grammatical corrections, and thoughtful (and rigorous) comments. The book is much better because of Patricks and Nicks work.
A book of this sort depends on the skills, kindness, and good graces of archivists and librarians. I would like to make a special thank-you to the staff at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park and Chicago, the Chicago Public Library, the Chicago Historical Museum, and Special Collections at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As always, I have benefited greatly from the able support of people working in the interlibrary loans and the acquisition sections of the University of Toronto library.
Similarly, I would like to thank the staff at the University of Georgia Press for all their work. The publication of the book has benefited from the efforts of Mick Gusinde-Duff and Jon Davies, both of whom shepherded the manuscript through all of the various stages of review, revision, and production. Several anonymous reviewers have made copious comments, all of which added immeasurably to the books clarity and focus. Jane Curran has been a terrific copy-editor, helping me delete numerous infelicities and redundancies. It is greatly appreciated. I would like to thank Deb Cowen, Nik Heynen, and Melissa Wright for making it possible for me to publish my book in their series.
My Toronto family and friends have provided much support, laughs, and love over the years. Thank you. Finally, I dedicate this book to the young writers of my Toronto family, Yonah, Lev, and Calvin. Although their writing has a different purpose than mine, they too know the joys and agonies of putting words on the page.
ABBREVIATIONS
ANMB
Army and Navy Munitions Board
CAC
Chicago Association of Commerce (and Industry)
CPA
Civilian Production Administration
CPL, MR
Chicago Public Library, Municipal Reference
CPL, SC
Chicago Public Library, Special Collections
DPC
Defense Plant Corporation
GSA
General Services Administration
IMA
Illinois Manufacturers Association
ICD
Illinois Council of Defense
IWC
Illinois War Council (World War II) records, Illinois State Archives
MHC
Metropolitan Housing Council
NDAC
National Defense Advisory Commission
OCO
Office of the Chief of Ordnance
OCWS
Office of Community War Services
OPA
Office of Price Administration
OPM
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