Bibliograph

Making a new deal, industrial workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, Lizabeth Cohen

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Making a new deal, industrial workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, Lizabeth Cohen

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Making a new deal

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

889309547

Responsibility statement

Lizabeth Cohen

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

industrial workers in Chicago, 1919-1939

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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