The Racketeer S Progress

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The Racketeer S Progress

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Author : Andrew Wender Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-03

The Racketeer S Progress written by Andrew Wender Cohen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-03 with Business & Economics categories.

"The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. Historians often portray Chicago as an unregulated industrial metropolis, composed of factories and immigrant labourers. In fact, the city was home to thousands of craftsmen - carpenters, teamsters, barbers, butchers, etc. - who formed unions and associations that governed commerce through pickets, assaults, and bombings. Working together, these groups forcefully challenged the power of national corporations and physically managed the development of mass culture in the city."--BOOK JACKET.

State Of The Union

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Author : Nelson Lichtenstein
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-25

State Of The Union written by Nelson Lichtenstein and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-25 with History categories.

In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century. The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. He offers an expansive survey of labor's upsurge during the 1930s, when the New Deal put a white, male version of industrial democracy at the heart of U.S. political culture. He debunks the myth of a postwar "management-labor accord" by showing that there was (at most) a limited, unstable truce. Lichtenstein argues that the ideas that had once sustained solidarity and citizenship in the world of work underwent a radical transformation when the rights-centered social movements of the 1960s and 1970s captured the nation's moral imagination. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. Throughout, Lichtenstein argues that labor's most important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work and in the larger society. To the extent that the unions fuse their purpose with that impulse, they can once again become central to the fate of the republic. State of the Union is an incisive history that tells the story of one of America's defining aspirations. This edition includes a new preface in which Lichtenstein engages with many of those who have offered commentary on State of the Union and evaluates the historical literature that has emerged in the decade since the book's initial publication. He also brings his narrative into the current moment with a final chapter, "Obama's America: Liberalism without Unions.?

Middle Class Union

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Author : Mark W. Robbins
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-05-19

Middle Class Union written by Mark W. Robbins and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with History categories.

Examines the birth of the American middle class as white-collar workers used their growing consumer identity to organize politically

Housing

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Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959

Housing written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with African Americans categories.

Wartime Racketeers

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Author : Harry Lever
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2019-12-06

Wartime Racketeers written by Harry Lever and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-06 with History categories.

Wartime Racketeers, first published in 1945 by newspaper reporters Harry Lever and Joseph Young, is a fascinating look at the multitude of schemes, scams, frauds, and rackets used in World War II to swindle the government, soldiers, and private citizens. The authors, using records from the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Better Business Bureau, and other sources, have complied a highly readable account of the many ways the racketeers operated, and the methods used to combat them. From simple scams to multimillion-dollar white collar crime rings, Wartime Racketeers provides a unique insight into this little-known aspect of the War, and as the author's state in their Introduction, “There are people in America who hope that the war will never end. The longer it lasts, the more money will line their pockets...”

Congressional Record

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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968

Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Law categories.

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Report

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Author : United States. Congress Senate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date :

Report written by United States. Congress Senate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with United States categories.

Merchant Vessels Of The United States

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942

Merchant Vessels Of The United States written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Merchant marine categories.

Mobsters Unions And Feds

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Author : James B. Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2007-05

Mobsters Unions And Feds written by James B. Jacobs and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05 with Business & Economics categories.

The first book to document organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort.

Senatorial Campaign Expenditures 1930 Hearings Before A 71 2 Pursuant To S Res 215 Illinois May 1 September 18 1930

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Senatorial Campaign Expenditures
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931

Senatorial Campaign Expenditures 1930 Hearings Before A 71 2 Pursuant To S Res 215 Illinois May 1 September 18 1930 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Senatorial Campaign Expenditures and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with categories.