Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939
ISBN: 9780521715355 | 0521715350
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/7/2008
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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.
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 wo... MORE
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 wo... MORE
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| List of Tables | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Living and Working in Chicago in 1919 | p. 11 |
| Ethnicity in the New Era | p. 53 |
| Encountering Mass Culture | p. 99 |
| Contested Loyalty at the Workplace | p. 159 |
| Adrift in the Great Depression | ... MOREp. 213 |
| Workers Make a New Deal | p. 251 |
| Becoming a Union Rank and File | p. 291 |
| Workers' Common Ground | p. 323 |
| Conclusion | p. 361 |
| Notes | p. 369 |
| Index | p. 511 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the history department of Harvard University
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