The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521124508)

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 statutes. This book thus shows that American industrial policy resulted not from a "search for order," but from a brutal struggle for control.

Author: Andrew Wender Cohen
ISBN-10: 0521124506
ISBN-13: 9780521124508
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d