Intelligent and Honest Radicals: The Chicago Federation of Labor and the Politics of Progression

by Mitchell Newton-Matza

Intelligent and Honest Radicals explores the Chicago labor movement's relationship to Illinois legal and political system. Newton-Matza focuses on the significant era between the great strike in 1919 to Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration and the beginning of the New Deal in 1933. He brings to light a number of victories and achievements for the labor movement in this period that are often over looked.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739168029
• ISBN13: 9780739168028
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher