Chicago in the age of capital [electronic resource] : class, politics, and democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction / John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov.

By: Jentz, John B, 1944-Contributor(s): Schneirov, Richard | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Working class in American historyPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012Description: xii, 310 p. : illISBN: 9780252093951 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 | Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Chicago (Ill.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.09773/1109034 LOC classification: HD8085.C53 | J46 2012Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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