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Chicago's progressive alliance : labor and the bid for public streetcars
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- Creator
- Georg Leidenberger
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- viii, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0875803563, 9780875803562
- OCLC
- ocm62172629
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.
- Introduction : A streetcar named democracy-labor and the search for the common good -- 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
Subjects
- Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council -- History -- 20th century.
- Labor unions -- Political activity -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
- Electric railroads -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
- Transportation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
- Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 20th century.