| Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 Contributor(s): Cohen, Lizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521887488 ISBN-13: 9780521887489 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 305.562 |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6.24" W x 9.09" (1.90 lbs) 570 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1920's - Locality - Chicago, Illinois - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
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| Publisher Description: 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. Although workers may not have been political in traditional terms during the '20s, as they made daily decisions like these, they declared their loyalty in ways that would ultimately have political significance. As the depression worsened in the 1930s, not only did workers find their pay and working hours cut or eliminated, but the survival strategies they had developed during the 1920s were undermined. Looking elsewhere for help, workers adopted new ideological perspectives and overcame longstanding divisions among themselves to mount new kinds of collective action. Chicago workers' experiences as citizens, ethnics and blacks, wage earners and consumers 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 introductory essay by Lizabeth Cohen. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cohen, Lizabeth: - Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the History Department of Harvard University. She is also the author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003) and co-author with David M. Kennedy of The American Pageant, a college-level US history textbook. |