Racketeer''s Progress - Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940

Klappentext This book looks at economic violence in early twentieth-century Chicago. Zusammenfassung This book explains how the new business rhetoric of the 1920s! especially the term 'racketeering'! prompted Americans to conflate organised crime and organised labour. The struggle between craftsmen! corporations and reformers shaped American law! as tradesmen helped create new anti-racketeering laws and New Deal industrial policies during the 1930s. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Modernisation and its discontents, 1900; 2. Ruling the urban economy; 3. The struggle for order; 4. The progressive reaction; 5. Rhetoric into law; 6. Containing mass society and the problem of corruption; 7. From conspiracy to racketeering; 8. The new deal order from the bottom up; Epilogue: policing the post-war consensus.

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• Authors: Andrew Cohen, Andrew Wender Cohen, Andrew Wender (Syracuse University Cohen
• Assisted by: Christopher Tomlins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2004
• EAN: 9780521834667
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83466-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous