Roger Biles

Biographic Data

ID762283
NAMERoger Biles
GIVEN NAMESRoger
FAMILY NAMEBiles
SIGNATUREBILES R
AFFILIATIONSIllinois State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • “Oil Can Eddie” and the Battle for the Steelworkers’ Union

    Roger Biles, Mark RoseARTICLEJournal of the Illinois State…2024

    THE CHALLENGE TO THE ENTRENCHED LEADERSHIP of the large and powerful United Steelworkers of America (USWA) originated in the union's District 31 during the 1970s. District 31, which surpassed the Pittsburgh area in membership after World War II, included such key manufacturing cities as Chicago, Joliet, and Chicago Heights in northeastern Illinois and Gary and East Chicago in northwestern Indiana. Less a broad-based movement than a spontaneous cr…

  • A President Visits East St. Louis: The Racialized Politics of Market Talk, Enterprise Zones, and Abandonment, 1980–2010

    Roger Biles, Mark H Rose et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Illinois State…2023

    BILL CLINTON WAS THE ONLY US PRESIDENT to visit East St. Louis. Clinton made two trips, the first in 1992 and the second in 1999. Clinton was alert to East St. Louis's visible place on any list of American cities that suffered high unemployment, shuttered factories, deadly pollution levels, profound poverty, widespread drug usage, and violent crime. Still more, as Clinton acknowledged and as any routine newspaper reader would have recognized, dee…

  • Deindustrialization and the State Bailout of East St. Louis

    Roger BilesARTICLEJournal of the Illinois State…2021

    DEINDUSTRIALIZATION—WHICH LED TO THE DRAMATIC REDUCTION OF POPULATION, employment, and retail—devastated America's great manufacturing cities. When the departure of businesses and taxpayers reduced revenue, municipalities struggled to balance budgets, pay their bills, and provide vital services to the shrinking number of inhabitants who remained within city limits. In the worst situations, financial crises forced state governments to take extreme…

  • At the Intersection of Race, Class, Gender, and Highway Politics

    Open AccessRoger Biles, Mark H Rose et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban History2020

  • Arthur Rubloff and the Grinding Politics of Renewal in Chicago, 1947 to 1986

    Open AccessMark Rose, Roger BilesARTICLEJournal of Urban History2020

    Between the 1940s and 1960s, Arthur Rubloff established a formidable presence in Chicago real estate development and in the city’s urban renewal programs. And yet, not even a skilled operator like Rubloff and members of his network of business executives possessed the savvy, clout, and resources to bring all or most of their projects to a successful conclusion. Nor were the fabled Mayor Richard J. Daley and his allies in the Central Area Committe…

  • Public Policy Made by Private Enterprise: Bond Rating Agencies and Urban America

    Open AccessRoger BilesARTICLEJournal of Urban History2018Cited by: 1

    Since World War II, and especially since the1970s, cities have increasingly relied on municipal bonds as a crucial source of income. At the same time, the bond rating agencies have exerted more influence on potential investors—a development with significant consequences for the nation’s cities. The need for elected officials to measure their actions against possible rewards and punishments imposed by the bond rating agencies allowed private busin…

  • Tribute to Raymond A. Mohl, 1938–2015

    Open AccessRoger Biles, Mark H Rose et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban History2015

  • Robert B. Fairbanks. The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935–1965

    Roger BilesARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Robert B. Fairbanks. The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935–1965. Get access Robert B. Fairbanks. The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935–1965. (Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 242. $59.50. Roger Biles Roger Biles Illinois State University…

  • Revisiting the Urban Interstates: Politics, Policy, and Culture since World War II

    Open AccessRoger Biles, Raymond A Mohl et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban History2014Cited by: 1

    Authors of the five essays published in this special section of the Journal of Urban History highlight the Interstate’s harsh and mostly unyielding consequences for urban residents, for their neighborhoods, and for their livelihoods. Politics and policy have shaped the Interstate Highway System from its beginning in 1939 up to the present day

  • Expressways before the Interstates: The Case of Detroit, 1945–1956

    Open AccessRoger BilesARTICLEJournal of Urban History2014Cited by: 1

    After the Second World War, city halls and local business communities cooperated to forestall urban decline in the face of population, industry, and retail loss to the suburbs and the Sunbelt. Before the U.S. Congress passed laws that established national housing programs, pro-growth coalitions in threatened cities launched programs designed to revitalize central business districts and lobbied in state capitals for legislation authorizing redevel…

  • Mason B. Williams. City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York

    Roger BilesARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    During the 1930s, at a time when New Deal agencies dispensed an unprecedented amount of largesse to the nation's suffering cities, many Americans believed that New York City benefited far more than any other community. According to the conventional wisdom at the time, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia took advantage of his close personal relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt to claim a disproportionate share of federal funds for his city. The president…

  • A New Deal for All? Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore

    Roger BilesARTICLEJournal of American History2013Cited by: 1

    Journal Article A New Deal for All? Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore Get access A New Deal for All? Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore. By Andor Skotnes. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. xvi, 375 pp. Cloth, $94.95. Paper, $26.95.) Roger Biles Roger Biles Illinois State UniversityNormal, Illinois [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American…

  • The Making of Urban America

    Raymond A Mohl, Roger BilesBOOKThe Making of Urban America2011

    The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, …

  • Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

    Roger BilesARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    Journal Article Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing Get access Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing. By Peter Eisenstadt. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. xii, 323 pp. $35.00, ISBN978-0-8014-4878-2.) Roger Biles Roger Biles Illinois State University Normal, Illinois [email protected] Search for other…

  • Black Milwaukee and the Ghetto Synthesis

    Open AccessRoger BilesARTICLEJournal of Urban History2007References: 1

    This article briefly examines Joe W. Trotter's Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 twenty years after its publication and notes its significance for urban history. Particularly important was the book's challenge to the “ghetto synthesis,” an influential analysis of the African American experience in U.S. cities, instead of which Trotter proposed a proletarianization model. In the wake of Trotter's critique of the ghe…

  • Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression

    Roger Biles, Errol Lincoln UysARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001

  • Bossism and Reform in a Southern City: Lexington, Kentucky, 1880-1940

    Roger Biles, James Duane BolinARTICLEJournal of American History2001

  • From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America

    JOHN F BAUMAN, Roger Biles et al.BOOKFrom Tenements to the Taylor Homes2000

  • From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America

    Robert B Fairbanks, John S Garner et al.BOOKFrom Tenements to the Taylor Homes2000

    Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned suburbs for workers, the rise of government-aided and built housing during the Great Depression…

  • Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965

    Roger Biles, Lee J Alston et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865–1965. By Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 170 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-62210-7.) Get access Roger Biles Roger Biles East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…

  • Public Housing on the Reservation

    Open AccessRoger BilesARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…2000

    In the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt repudiated the federal government’s traditional noninvolvement with the private housing market in an effort to revitalize the moribund construction industry. Under the auspices of the 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act, the Public Works Administration’s Housing Division purchased or condemned land and built a modest amount of low-income housing. With the passage of the Wagner-Steagal…

  • Thinking the Unthinkable about Our Cities: Thirty Years Later

    Open AccessRoger BilesARTICLEJournal of Urban History1998

  • Henry A. Wallace: His Search for a New World Order

    Roger Biles, Graham White et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

  • Daley: The Last Boss

    Roger Biles, Barak GoodmanARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Daley: The Last Boss. Prod. by Barak Goodman. Social Media Productions, 1995.112mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock PL, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Get access Roger Biles Roger Biles East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1131–1132, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945825 Published: 01 Dec…

  • Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago

    John M Allswang, Roger BilesARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago. By Roger Biles. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. x, 292 pp. Cloth, $32.00, ISBN 0-87580-199-4. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-87580-566-3.) Get access John M. Allswang John M. Allswang California State University, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, J…