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

by Andrew Cohen

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A provocative study of law and its social context, this work explores the contingent origins of the modern American economy. It shows how craftsmen - teamsters, barbers, musicians, and others - violently governed commerce in Chicago through pickets, assaults, and bombings. These tradesmen forcefully contested the power of national corporations in their city. Their resistan...more

Paperback, 352 pages

Published December 10th 2009 by Cambridge University Press

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