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

by Andrew Wender Cohen

Book Overview

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 resistance shaped American law, heavily influencing the New Deal and federal criminal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521124506
• ISBN13: 9780521124508
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"