Chicago in the age of capital : class, politics, and democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction /

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In this history of mid-19th-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov trace the capitalist transition in Chicago during the critical decades from the 1850s through the 1870s, a period that saw the rise of a permanent wage-worker class and the formation of an industrial middle c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Jentz, John B., 1944- (Autor), Schneirov, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Colección:Working class in American history.
Temas:
1800-1899
Labor > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Working class > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Capitalism > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Industrialization > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Travail > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Travailleurs > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Industrialisation > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 19e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Capitalism.
Economic history.
Industrialization.
Labor.
Social conditions.
Working class.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Illinois > Chicago.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The city
  • The internationale of the citizen workers: from slavery to the labor question
  • The eight-hour day and the legitimacy of wage labor
  • Chicago's immigrant working class and the rise of urban populism, 1867-73
  • Class and politics during the depression of the 1870s
  • Combat in the streets: the Railroad Strike of 1877 and its consequences
  • Regime change.

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