Vision Press, 1996. A Narrative and Intellectual History . You will present your paper to the class, so it will be due prior to your class presentation, as shown on the calendar. All written work must be typed in 12 point Times or New York, double spaced, and must conform to Chicago style, not APA style. A handy and inexpensive guide is Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations , published by the University of Chicago Press.
Any edition is satisfactory.
A final examination will be given on Thursday, May 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. This article examines the role of The New Majority in Chicago's labor world in the post-war era, a period of turmoil in the American labor movement, during which the CFL struggled to articulate a new labor vision. The New Majority was launched to serve both the Cook Country Labor Party and the CFL as official organ and was a key part of CFL's social and political strategy. Nevertheless, both the party and The New Majority proved controversial and expensive, and Chicago unionists eventually retreated to a narrower emphasis on traditional trade union concerns.