Chicago's progressive alliance
Subtitle: labor and the bid for public streetcars
By: Georg Leidenberger.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780875803562
Subjects: Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council -- History -- 20th century; Labor unions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Electric railroads -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 20th century; Transportation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Labor and the bid for public streetcars
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : A streetcar named democracy; title: Service workers and the new metropolitan unionism; title: Private streetcars, public utopias, and the construction of the modern city; title: The movement for municipal ownership; title: The 1905 Teamsters strike; title: The politics of streetcar regulation; title: The eclipse of reform in a fragmented city; title: Conclusion : Class, reform, and democracy in early-twentieth-century America.