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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Juni 2015
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	20th century history# c 1900 to c 2000 / C 1900 - C 1914 / c 1900 to c 1909 / c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) / c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period) / c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) / c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) / HISTORY / United States / 20th Century / History of the Americas / Illinois mehr...
ISBN:	9780521834667
EAN-Code:	9780521834667
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 235 mm / B 157 mm / D 25 mm
Gewicht:	722 gr
Seiten:	352
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Inhalt:

The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. It explains how carpenters, teamsters, barbers, musicians and others organised to thwart ambitious national corporations. Unions and associations governed commerce through pickets, assaults and bombings. Scholars often ignore this defiance, painting modernisation as a consensual process and presenting craftsmen as reactionary, corrupt and criminal. This is ironic, for the tradesmen's reputation derives from their successful struggle to control modernisation and the emerging consumer economy. Their resistance redirected American law. Progressive-era courts rebuked the craftsmen for attempting to govern trade. In the 1920s, the tradesmen inspired new criminal concepts, such as 'racketeering'. But the Great Depression reversed harsh laws. The craftsmen became a model for New Deal recovery statutes and a focus for constitutional debates. Meanwhile, the state began protecting unions against gangsters like Al Capone.