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Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into the most violent, turbulent city in America. Chicago was roiling with political and economic conflict, much of it rooted in class tensions, and the city's lawmakers and business elite fostered the growth of a professional municipal police force to protect capitalism, its assets, and their own positions in society. Together...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this history of mid-19th-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov trace the capitalist transition in Chicago during the critical decades from the 1850s through the 1870s, a period that saw the rise of a permanent wage-worker class and the formation of an industrial middle class.
4) German workers in Chicago: a documentary history of working-class culture from 1850 to World War I
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
8) What work is
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union members from a wide range of occupations and demographic groups. In the class, he asked his students to finish the question "Work is-?" in six words or less. The thousands of responses he collected provide some of the rich source material behind What Work Is. Bruno draws on the thoughts and feelings experienced by workers in the present day to analyze how...
12) Labor and urban politics: class conflict and the origins of modern liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
13) Negro and white, unite and fight!: a social history of industrial unionism in meatpacking, 1930-90
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised new questions about what constituted work and who counted as a worker. Andrea Ringer examines the industry-wide circus world--the collection of shows that traveled by rail, wagon, steamboat, and car--and...
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