{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Dodge, Detroit & Women in Industry","description":" MyMediaDiary welcomes back Tom Reed with his fellow co-producer of Digging Detroit, Pete Kalinski, as they discuss the early days of Detroit's automotive history with historians Bailey Sisoy Isgro and Madelyn Rzadkowolski, curator of Meadowbrook.\r\nTopics include:\r\n\r\nAdvertising’s current portrayal of the Dodge Brothers\r\nDodge's famous dependability—and fix-it-yourself car kits\r\nGeneral Patton and the Dodge military contract\r\nWomen and Detroit’s cigar industry as a vehicle for entry into the workforce (and why Detroit was a cigar center)\r\nUsing campaigns of conscience to get women into the workforce during WWI\r\nDetroit’s African American 600% population boom between 1910-1920\r\nDetroit as the “Paris of the Midwest”\r\nMore campaigns of conscience to force women out of the workplace after WWII\r\nDodge’s role in the arsenal of democracy\r\nFear of women earning too much--and gaining political clout)\r\nPromoting the myth of the non-communist “nuclear family” in the nuclear age\r\n\r\nProduced by Kevin Walsh of MMD Productions (www.mmdphotovideo.com).\r\nRecorded January 10, 2015 in Royal Oak, Michigan.\r\n ","author_name":"MyMediaDiary Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/mymediadiary.libsyn.com","html":"