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Book Synopsis The Racketeer's Progress by : Andrew Wender Cohen
Download or read book The Racketeer's Progress written by Andrew Wender Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. Historians often portray Chicago as an unregulated industrial metropolis, composed of factories and immigrant labourers. In fact, the city was home to thousands of craftsmen - carpenters, teamsters, barbers, butchers, etc. - who formed unions and associations that governed commerce through pickets, assaults, and bombings. Working together, these groups forcefully challenged the power of national corporations and physically managed the development of mass culture in the city."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Sucker’s Progress by : Herbert Asbury
Download or read book Sucker’s Progress written by Herbert Asbury and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the great raconteur of the American underworld, and author of The Gangs of New York, comes Sucker’s Progress: An Information History of Gambling in America. From Midwestern Riverboats to East Coast Racetracks, Herbert Asbury explores the legal and illegal history of gambling in pre-WWII America. Describing notorious gambling havens like Chicago and New Orleans, as well as lesser-known outposts in cities like Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Asbury examines the gambling houses, big and small, which peppered the American landscape. Also presented are the lives of some of America’s most famous gamblers, including Mike McDonald, John Morrissey, and Richard Canfield, as well as their infamous counterparts like “Canada Bill” and “Charley Black Eyes,” men who made their names as grifters and con men. Asbury also explores the games these men played, describing the rules and origins of dozens of dice and card games. From $1 lottery tickets to thousand dollar pokes antes, America’s love of gambling thrives today, but it was during Asbury’s era that gambling was established as an American passion. “Asbury embarked on what seems in retrospect an extraordinary mission: to document the entire underworld of America, from New Orleans to San Francisco....His studies of gambling, of the racial politics of the New Orleans French Quarter, and of the history of Chicago crime remain monuments to an ambition that was then confined to the fringes of pop history. Sucker’s Progress, his history of gambling and swindling in America, is dense with facts about a subject one would have thought persisted only as rumour and tall tale.”—A. GOPNIK, The New Yorker One of the best American books of its kind. He tells the story of the New York underworld of the past century, and his narrative is excellently presented in a book adorned with amusing pictures from the weeklies and newspapers.”—E. Pearson, The Sat. Rev. of Books
Book Synopsis State of the Union by : Nelson Lichtenstein
Download or read book State of the Union written by Nelson Lichtenstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century. The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. He offers an expansive survey of labor's upsurge during the 1930s, when the New Deal put a white, male version of industrial democracy at the heart of U.S. political culture. He debunks the myth of a postwar "management-labor accord" by showing that there was (at most) a limited, unstable truce. Lichtenstein argues that the ideas that had once sustained solidarity and citizenship in the world of work underwent a radical transformation when the rights-centered social movements of the 1960s and 1970s captured the nation's moral imagination. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. Throughout, Lichtenstein argues that labor's most important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work and in the larger society. To the extent that the unions fuse their purpose with that impulse, they can once again become central to the fate of the republic. State of the Union is an incisive history that tells the story of one of America's defining aspirations. This edition includes a new preface in which Lichtenstein engages with many of those who have offered commentary on State of the Union and evaluates the historical literature that has emerged in the decade since the book's initial publication. He also brings his narrative into the current moment with a final chapter, "Obama's America: Liberalism without Unions.?
Book Synopsis Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago by : Alex Garel-Frantzen
Download or read book Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago written by Alex Garel-Frantzen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Capone. The Untouchables. The Valentine's Day massacre. You may think you know everything about the Roaring Twenties in the Windy City, but in the early twentieth century, the harsh environment of the Maxwell Street ghetto produced a proliferation of Jewish gangsters involved in everything from labor racketeering to white slavery. Their illegal activity offended their own community's value system and sparked rifts between Reform and Orthodox Jews. It also ignited tensions between city officials and Jewish leaders, indelibly marked the gentile population's perception of Chicago's Jews and shaped the city's West Side for years to come.
Book Synopsis Legislative History of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, Titles I-VI. by : United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Solicitor
Download or read book Legislative History of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, Titles I-VI. written by United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Solicitor and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1030 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Legislative History of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 by : United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel
Download or read book Legislative History of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 written by United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Workers against the City by : Donald W. Rogers
Download or read book Workers against the City written by Donald W. Rogers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1939 Supreme Court decision Hague v. CIO was a constitutional milestone that strengthened the right of Americans, including labor organizers, to assemble and speak in public places. Donald W. Rogers eschews the prevailing view of the case as a morality play pitting Jersey City, New Jersey, political boss Frank Hague against the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and allied civil libertarian groups. Instead, he draws on a wide range of archives and evidence to re-evaluate Hague v. CIO from the ground up. Rogers's review of the case from district court to the Supreme Court illuminates the trial proceedings and provides perspectives from both sides. As he shows, the economic, political, and legal restructuring of the 1930s refined constitutional rights as much as the court case did. The final decision also revealed that assembly and speech rights change according to how judges and lawmakers act within the circumstances of a given moment. Clear-eyed and comprehensive, Workers against the City revises the view of a milestone case that continues to impact Americans' constitutional rights today.
Book Synopsis Shadow of the Racketeer by : David Scott Witwer
Download or read book Shadow of the Racketeer written by David Scott Witwer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it
Book Synopsis Semiannual Report by : United States. Dept. of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
Download or read book Semiannual Report written by United States. Dept. of Labor. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :568 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Semiannual Report to the Congress by : United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
Download or read book Semiannual Report to the Congress written by United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Middle Class Union by : Mark W. Robbins
Download or read book Middle Class Union written by Mark W. Robbins and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the birth of the American middle class as white-collar workers used their growing consumer identity to organize politically
Download or read book Purple Power written by Luís LM Aguiar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occupations from healthcare and government service to custodians and taxi drivers. Women form more than half the membership while people in minority groups make up approximately forty percent. Luís LM Aguiar and Joseph A. McCartin edit essays on one of contemporary labor’s bedrock organizations. The contributors explore key episodes, themes, and features in the union’s recent history and evaluate SEIU as a union with global aspirations and impact. The first section traces the SEIU’s growth in the last and current centuries. The second section offers in-depth studies of key campaigns in the United States, including the Justice for Janitors and Fight for $15 movements. The third section focuses on the SEIU’s work representing low-wage workers in Canada, Australia, Europe, and Brazil. An interview with Justice for Janitors architect Stephen Lerner rounds out the volume. Contributors: Luís LM Aguiar, Adrienne E. Eaton, Janice Fine, Euan Gibb, Laurence Hamel-Roy, Tashlin Lakhani, Joseph A. McCartin, Yanick Noiseux, Benjamin L. Peterson, Allison Porter, Alyssa May Kuchinski, Maite Tapia, Veronica Terriquez, and Kyoung-Hee Yu
Book Synopsis Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941 by : Kristofer Allerfeldt
Download or read book Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941 written by Kristofer Allerfeldt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians? Why do they immortalize Al Capone while forgetting his more successful contemporaries George Remus or Roy Olmstead? Why are some public figures repudiated for their connections to the mob while others gain celebrity status? Drawing on historical accounts, the author analyzes the public's understanding of organized crime and questions some of our most deeply held assumptions about crime and its role in society.
Book Synopsis Mobsters, Unions, and Feds by : James B. Jacobs
Download or read book Mobsters, Unions, and Feds written by James B. Jacobs and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to document organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort.
Book Synopsis Legal History of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act by :
Download or read book Legal History of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Legislative History of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Its Amendments by : United States
Download or read book A Legislative History of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Its Amendments written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago Union Station written by Fred Ash and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Midwestern transportation hub and its impact on the city and the region, plus stunning photographs of the station’s architecture. More than a century before airlines placed it at the center of their systems, Chicago was already the nation’s transportation hub—from Union Station, passengers could reach major cities on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts as well as countless points in between. Chicago’s history is tightly linked to its railroads. Railroad historian Fred Ash begins in the mid-1800s, when Chicago dominated Midwest trade and was referred to as the “Railroad Capital of the World.” During this period, swings in the political climate significantly modified the relationship between the local government and its largest landholders, the railroads. From here, Ash highlights competition at the turn of the twentieth century between railroad companies that greatly influenced Chicago’s urban landscape. Profiling the fascinating stories of businessmen, politicians, workers, and immigrants whose everyday lives were affected by the bustling transportation hub, Ash documents the impact Union Station had on the growing city and the entire Midwest. Featuring more than one hundred photographs of the famous beaux art architecture, Chicago Union Station is a beautifully illustrated tribute to one of America’s overlooked treasures. “The book includes more than 100 illustrations, a quarter of which are in color—but the real value is in author Ash’s narrative; he’s devoted decades to the study of terminals in the Railroad Capital, and it shows in this marvelous work.” —Classic Trains “The station’s history is thoughtfully revealed alongside concurrent economic and political events unfolding in Chicago at given points in time, thus providing the reader with a deeper understanding of why certain station milestones occurred when they did and the way they did.” —The Michigan Railfan
