Making a New Deal
Subtitle: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 25, 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780521428385
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Economics; 20th century; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History - U.S.; History; History: American; USA; Minority Studies - General; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; Working class - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century; Chicago; Illinois; Working class
First sentence: Plate 2. In 1919, Chicago's industrial workers lived in neighborhoods determined by their jobs and ethnicity.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Living and working in Chicago in 1919; title: Ethnicity in the new Era; title: Encountering mass culture; title: Contested loyalty at the workplace; title: Adrift in the Great Depression; title: Workers make a new deal; title: Becoming a union rank and file; title: Workers' common ground; title: Conclusion