An edition of Chicago's progressive alliance (2006)

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labor and the bid for public streetcars

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An edition of Chicago's progressive alliance (2006)

Chicago's progressive alliance

labor and the bid for public streetcars

"Georg Leidenberger is Professor of History at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City."--Jacket.

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English
Pages
202

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Chicago's progressive alliance: labor and the bid for public streetcars
2006, Northern Illinois University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction : A streetcar named democracy
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.

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DeKalb
Other Titles
Labor and the bid for public streetcars

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
388.4/2097731109041
Library of Congress
HD6519.C44 L45 2006, HD6519.C44L45 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
202

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3413599M
ISBN 10
0875803563
ISBN 13
9780875803562
LCCN
2005029739
OCLC/WorldCat
62172629
LibraryThing
2443688
Goodreads
1213438

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OL5837515W

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