Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939

Hardback

Main Details

Title Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Lizabeth Cohen
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:570
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history - from c 1900 to now
Industrialisation and industrial history
ISBN/Barcode 9780521887489
ClassificationsDewey:305.562097731109041
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Edition 2nd Revised edition
Illustrations 15 Tables, unspecified; 2 Maps; 37 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 14 January 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A&P. As they made daily decisions like these, they declared their loyalty in ways that would ultimately have political significance. When the depression worsened in the 1930s, workers adopted new ideological perspectives and overcame longstanding divisions among themselves to mount new kinds of collective action. Chicago workers' experiences all converged to make them into New Deal Democrats and CIO unionists. First printed in 1990, Making a New Deal has become an established classic in American history. The second edition includes a new preface by Lizabeth Cohen.

Author Biography

Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the history department of Harvard University. She is also the author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003) and co-author with David M. Kennedy of The American Pageant, a college-level U.S. history textbook.