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Auteur:	Cohen, Andrew Wender
Titel:	Racketeer's Progress Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940
Uitgever:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	9780521124508
Serie:	Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Serie:	Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Land van oorsprong:	United Kingdom
Prijs:	€ 44.95
Verschijningsdatum:	10-12-2009
Bericht:	Langere levertijd (2-3 weken)

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Categorie:	20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Geogr.gebied:	Illinois
Periode:	20th century
Geillustreerd:	Worked examples or Exercises
Dewey code:	331.88097731109041

Technische kenmerken

Verschijningsvorm:	Paperback / softback
Paginas:	352
Hoogte mm.:	229
Breedte mm.:	152
Dikte mm.:	20
Gewicht gr.:	520

 

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This book explains how the new business rhetoric of the 1920s, especially the term 'racketeering', prompted Americans to conflate organised crime and organised labour. The struggle between craftsmen, corporations and reformers shaped American law, as tradesmen helped create new anti-racketeering laws and New Deal industrial policies during the 1930s.