The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940

by Andrew Wender Cohen

2021-01-01 02:34:54

A provocative study of law and its social context, this work explores the contingent origins of the modern American economy. It shows how craftsmen - teamsters, barbers, musicians, and others - violently governed commerce in Chicago through pickets,... Read more
A provocative study of law and its social context, this work explores the contingent origins of the modern American economy. It shows how craftsmen - teamsters, barbers, musicians, and others - violently governed commerce in Chicago through pickets, assaults, and bombings. These tradesmen forcefully contested the power of national corporations in their city. Their resistance shaped American law, heavily influencing the New Deal and federal criminal statutes. This book thus shows that American industrial policy resulted not from a "search for order," but from a brutal struggle for control. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.79 in
Print pages352
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date December 10, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521124508

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