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 Sherman Library  HD6519.C44 L45 2006    AVAILABLE  
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Author Leidenberger, Georg.
Title Chicago's progressive alliance : labor and the bid for public streetcars / Georg Leidenberger.
OCLC 62172629
ISBN 0875803563 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBN/ISSN 9780875803562
Publisher DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2006]
©2006
Description viii, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council -- History -- 20th century.
Labor unions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century.
Electric railroads -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Transportation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 20th century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.
Contents 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.
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