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The Racketeer's Progress is an original, engaging study that succeeds in describing Chicago's craft economy and in challenging historians to rethink their interpretations of ury political economy. Salzmann, University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Racketeer's Progress is an original, engaging study that succeeds in describing Chicago's craft economy and in challenging historians to rethink their interpretations of ury political economy. A provocative study of law and its social context, this work explores the contingent origins of the modern American economy.

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Part of the Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Series). A provocative study of law and its social context, this work explores the contingent origins of the modern American economy

Part of the Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Series). by Andrew Wender Cohen. These tradesmen forcefully contested the power of national corporations in their city.

ByCohenAndrew Wender. The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, xii + 399 pp.

The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American ecomy by examining the violent . Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society.

The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American ecomy 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 igre this defiance, painting modernisation as a consensual process and presenting craftsmen as reactionary, corrupt and criminal. Reid, Joseph . 2005. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900†1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:65:y:2005:i:02:p:591-593 30.

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Andrew Wender Cohen, The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. In particular, Cohen discusses the Building Trades Lockout of 1900 and the Teamsters’ Strike of 1905, both of which turned violent. It was not a struggle against progress, for anything that would reduce the labor required to complete an existing job at the existing wage was welcome. Nor was it a struggle against change, for there was a willingness to accept change that could be controlled.

Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940.

Cohen, Andrew Wender. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. 333 pp. Cooley, Will, "'Stones Run It': Taking Back Control of Organized Crime in Chicago, 1940–1975," Journal of Urban History, 37 (Nov. 2011), 933–51.