An edition of Chicago's progressive alliance
(2006)
Chicago's progressive alliance
labor and the bid for public streetcars
by Georg Leidenberger
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Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council, Electric railroads, History, Labor unions, Political activity, Progressivism (United States politics), Labor unions, united states, Labor unions, political activity, Progressivism (united states politics), TransportationPlaces
20th century, Chicago, Illinois, TransportationTimes
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Chicago's progressive alliance: labor and the bid for public streetcars
2006, Northern Illinois University Press
in English
0875803563 9780875803562
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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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