Mitchell Newton-Matza

Intelligent and Honest Radicals (eBook, ePUB)

The Chicago Federation of Labor and the Politics of Progression

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Intelligent and Honest Radicals explores the Chicago labor movement's relationship to Illinois legal and political system especially as seen through the eyes of the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL). Newton-Matza focuses on the significant era between the great strike in 1919 and Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration and the beginning of the New Deal in 1933. He brings to light a number of victories and achievements for the labor movement in this period that are often overlooked. Newton-Matza shows the Chicago labor movement as a progressive agency intent on changing the workers' world through words and peaceful actions, drawing upon their personal experiences and ideology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739180136
• Artikelnr.: 39888141

Autorenporträt

Mitchell Matza received his PhD in history from The Catholic University of America.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Ghosts of Upheaval: Chicago Law and Labor in the
Nineteenth Century
Chapter Two: Whoopla Ho! : The Creation of the Chicago Federation of Labor
and into the Twentieth Century
Chapter Three: Everybody Is Watching Us Now: The CFL and the Dream of a
Labor Party
Chapter Four: The Crack of the Whip: The Battle against the Labor
Injunction
Chapter Five: The Chicago Controversy: The Landis Award
Chapter Six: A Brisk War over a New Constitution for Illinois
Conclusion: Out of the Twenties and into the New Deal
Bibliography