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From the Bottom Up
Nasaw, David | March 18, 1991 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939," by Lizabeth Cohen. In this book, Cohen tells a simple story that will warm the heart of every leftist. She describes how Chicago's industrial workers, divided in the 1920s by race, ethnicity and residence, joined together during the Great Depression to install C.I.O. unions in their factories and elect and pressure Democratic politicians to make a new deal. Like the best new labor historians, she studies working people outside there workplaces, but like the best old labor historians, she emphasizes the importance of workplace and union building in their lives.

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MAKING a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago 1919-1939 (Book); COHEN, Lizabeth; INDUSTRIAL workers; DEPRESSIONS; MULTICULTURALISM; ETHNICITY
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