Chicago in the age of capital
Subtitle: class, politics, and democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction
By: John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov
Contributors: Schneirov, Richard
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780252036835
Subjects: History; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Industrialization; Labor; Working class; Capitalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The city; title: The internationale of the citizen workers: from slavery to the labor question; title: The eight-hour day and the legitimacy of wage labor; title: Chicago's immigrant working class and the rise of urban populism, 1867-73; title: Class and politics during the depression of the 1870s; title: Combat in the streets: the Railroad Strike of 1877 and its consequences; title: Regime change.