Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (Canto Classics) - Softcover

Cohen, Lizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107431794 ISBN 13: 9781107431799

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This book examines what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. Through decisions such as whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or go to the movies, they declared their loyalty in ways that would ultimately have political significance.

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Review of previous edition: 'At every step the argument is developed in a sophisticated way ... Making a New Deal constitutes a major achievement.' Julia Greene, Journal of American History

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This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A & P. As they made daily decisions like these, they declared their loyalty in ways that would ultimately have political significance. When the depression worsened in the 1930s, workers adopted new ideological perspectives and overcame longstanding divisions among themselves to mount new kinds of collective action. Chicago workers' experiences all converged to make them into New Deal Democrats and CIO unionists. First printed in 1990, Making a New Deal has become an established classic in American history. The second edition includes a new preface by Lizabeth Cohen.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107431794
• ISBN 13: 9781107431799
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 568