Mitchell Newton-Matza

Intelligent and Honest Radicals

The Chicago Federation of Labor and the Politics of Progression

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Intelligent and Honest Radicals explores the Chicago labor movement's relationship to Illinois legal and political system. Newton-Matza focuses on the significant era between the great strike in 1919 to Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration and the beginning of the New Deal in 1933. He brings to light a number of victories and achievements for the labor movement in this period that are often over looked.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780739168028
• ISBN-10: 0739168029
• Artikelnr.: 36598778

Autorenporträt

By Mitchell Newton-Matza

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Ghosts of Upheaval: Chicago
Law and Labor in the Nineteenth Century Chapter Two: Whoopla Ho! : The
Creation of the Chicago Federation of Labor and into the Twentieth Century
Chapter Three: Everybody Is Watching Us Now: The CFL and the Dream of a
Labor Party Chapter Four: The Crack of the Whip: The Battle against the
Labor Injunction Chapter Five: The Chicago Controversy: The Landis Award
Chapter Six: A Brisk War over a New Constitution for Illinois Conclusion:
Out of the Twenties and into the New Deal Bibliography