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Chicago's progressive alliance : labor and the bid for public streetcars / Georg Leidenberger.

Por: Tipo de material: TextoTextoDetalles de publicación: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University, 2006.Descripción: viii, 202 p. : il., mapas ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0875803563 (clothbound : alk. paper)
  • 9780875803562 (clothbound : alk. paper)
Otro título:
  • Labor and the bid for public streetcars [Título paralelo]
Tema(s): Clasificación CDD:
  • 388.4/2097731109041 22
Clasificación LoC:
  • HD 6519.C44 L45.2006
Contenidos:
Introduction : A streetcar named democracy-labor and the search for the common good -- Service workers and the new metropolitan unionism -- Private streetcars, public utopias, and the construction of the modern city -- The movement for municipal ownership -- The 1905 Teamsters strike -- The politics of streetcar regulation -- The eclipse of reform in a fragmented city -- Conclusion : Class, reform, and democracy in early twentieth-century America.
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Introduction : A streetcar named democracy-labor and the search for the common good -- Service workers and the new metropolitan unionism -- Private streetcars, public utopias, and the construction of the modern city -- The movement for municipal ownership -- The 1905 Teamsters strike -- The politics of streetcar regulation -- The eclipse of reform in a fragmented city -- Conclusion : Class, reform, and democracy in early twentieth-century America.