{"product_id":"chicagos-progressive-alliance-9780875803562","title":"Chicagos Progressive Alliance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTalks about the middle-class reformers who, at the turn of the twentieth century, joined hands with the Chicago Federation of Labor, a conglomerate of diverse unions, to advocate municipal control of the city's streetcars. Streetcars encompassed many Progressive concerns: control of service enterprises, the crusade against corruption, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePioneering and well-researched. Leidenberger argues persuasively that Chicago workers, far from being more apolitical than their British or European counterparts, were at the heart of municipal reform politics during the Progressive era.\u003c\/p\u003e * urban history *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a very compelling story of Chicago labor and progressive politics. Leidenberger uses the struggle over urban transit to highlight shifting currents in the city's urban politics. Commendably, he gives Chicago's turn-of-the-century labor movement the central role it deserves in this drama.\u003c\/p\u003e -- H. Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcise and clearly articulated, this argument successfully defends the notion that labor organizations had both power and public support, albeit briefly, for a broader vision of public policy.\u003c\/p\u003e * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Streetcar Named Democracy—Labor and the Search for the Common Good\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Service Workers and the New Metropolitan Unionism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Private Streetcars, Public Utopias, and the Construction of the Modern City\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Movement for Municipal Ownership\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The 1905 Teamsters Strike\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: The Politics of Streetcar Regulation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: The Eclipse of Reform in a Fragmented City\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Class, Reform, and Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century America\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406419108183,"sku":"9780875803562","price":29.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780875803562.jpg?v=1730495732","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chicagos-progressive-alliance-9780875803562","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}