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Title: Making a New Deal : Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 by Lizabeth Cohen ISBN: 0-521-42838-6 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 25 October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: In-depth Analysis of Chicago and Chicagoans
Comment: Cohen's work based on her Ph.D. Dissertation at UC-Berkeley proves to be a comprehensive, engaging, and insightful look into popular culture in 1920s and 1930s Chicago. She moves seamlessly from labor history to cultural history to ethnic history without losing the reader by including helpful charts, figures, and photographs. Her section on the nature of mass media and mass consumption undoubtedly provides evidence of her writing style in The American Pageant.
Cohen does not create a delineation between immigrants that came to the area and natives of the Chicago area, which goes a long way in terms of bias. She covers African-Americans, Polish, Italians, and Jews without being critical one way or the other. Each chapter seems to be able to live by itself, which gives the book a flavor of being a compendium of papers instead of a conjoined work. All in all, Cohen does a wonderful job examining Chicago and Chicagoans whatever their ethnicity may be.
Rating: 4
Summary: Outstanding view of workers in Chicago between the wars
Comment: Making a New Deal is an absolutely incredible look at workers during the Interwar period in Chicago. Cohen has crafted a monumental work that not only covers workers political and union organization but also covers the changes in their lives resulting from societal changes such as the advent of radio and the chain store.
What's particularly appealing and interesting about this book is also what it says about modern times. Cohen discusses that due to the advent of radio and national networks, fewer workers got their local and world news from ethnic newspapers or other papers in Chicago. As can be seen from this, the current lement concerning the consolidation of newspapers, TV and radio stations isn't new, it began even in the 1930s. Also interesting is how many immigrant parents worried about their children becoming influenced by American culture that they did not understand, particularly clubs, dance halls and radio music.
Cohen's work is profoundly important and most of the book is a great read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A superior book on labor, ethnicity, and politics
Comment: A well-researched and original book describing the shifting allegiances of Chicago workers from ethnic help societies to their welfare capitalist employers to finally the US government. In addition to the subject of the growing labor movement, the book is also a great survey of the various ethnic/racial groups of 1920s Chicago and their differing experiences with Americanization.
There is a book I would like to recommend as a virtual "sequel" to this one. The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas Sugrue. While Cohen's book is about the creation of the New Deal coalition in the factory neighborhoods and towns of Chicago, Sugrue's book is about the disappearance of the factories and the departure from the Democratic coalition in the 1960s of the same groups who joined it in the 30s. Sugrue's book also won a Bancroft prize and if you like one you will surely like the other.
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Title: A Consumers' Republic : The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by LIZABETH COHEN ISBN: 0375707379 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue ISBN: 0691058881 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Suburban Warriors : The Origins of the New American Right by Lisa McGirr ISBN: 0691096112 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 21 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The End Of Reform : New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War by Alan Brinkley ISBN: 0679753141 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (The Haymarket Series) by Michael Denning ISBN: 1859841708 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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