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

ISBN: 0521124506

ISBN13: 9780521124508

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

(Part of the Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Series)

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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...

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