The Racketeer's Progress

The Racketeer's Progress

Author: Andrew Wender Cohen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-05-03

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521834667

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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. Historians often portray Chicago as an unregulated industrial metropolis, composed of factories and immigrant labourers. In fact, the city was home to thousands of craftsmen - carpenters, teamsters, barbers, butchers, etc. - who formed unions and associations that governed commerce through pickets, assaults, and bombings. Working together, these groups forcefully challenged the power of national corporations and physically managed the development of mass culture in the city."--BOOK JACKET.


Investigation of So-called "rackets".

Investigation of So-called

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1933

Total Pages: 1030

ISBN-13:

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Also investigates the problem of crime prevention in general. Oct. 3, 1933 hearing was held in Detroit, Mich; Oct. 23, 24, 1933 hearings were held in Chicago, Ill.; Aug. 14, 15, Nov. 23, 24, Dec. 21, 1933 hearings were held in NYC, Jan,31, 1934 hearings were held in Washington.