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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jentz, John B., 1944-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Schneirov, Richard.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.
Series:Working class in American history
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.