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The Racketeer's Progress

Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940
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The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. It explains how carpenters, teamsters, barbers, musicians, and others organized to thwart ambitious national corporations. Unions and associations governed commerce through pickets, assaults, and bombings. Scholars often ignore this defiance, painting modernization as a consensual process and presenting craftsmen as reactionary, corrupt, and criminal. This is ironic, for the tradesmen's reputation derives from their successful struggle to control modernization and the emerging consumer economy. Their resistance redirected American law. Progressive-era courts rebuked the craftsmen for attempting to govern trade. In the 1920s, the tradesmen inspired new criminal concepts, such as 'racketeering'. But the Great Depression reversed harsh laws. The craftsmen became a model for New Deal recovery statutes and a focus for constitutional debates. Meanwhile, the state began protecting unions against gangsters like Al Capone.
Release date Australia
May 3rd, 2004
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Pages
352
Dimensions
152x229x24
ISBN-13
9780521834667
Product ID
2398914

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