| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890–1940. By Georgina Hickey. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. x, 297 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2333-0.)

Georgina Hickey begins her book on working-class women and urban development in Atlanta with tantalizing tidbits of information about seven women, including Nellie Busbee's telling the Atlanta police chief to "go to hell." Hickey informs us that she originally intended to tell their stories, that is, how they constructed identities for themselves as working women in an urban setting. She discovered, however, that the city used working-class women as symbols in debates over social welfare and moral order in the city. While Hickey tells a fascinating story of how politicians and reformers manipulated images of working-class women as they sought to shape Atlanta, ultimately their voices drown out Nellie Busbee, her friends, and her colleagues.

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