Andrew Wender Cohen. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83466-X, $60.00 (cloth). |
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Authors: | Hirsch Susan E |
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Institution: | Loyola University, Chicago |
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Abstract: | The Racketeers Progress is an important contributionto the growing literature on the role of law in the relationshipbetween labor and capital. It focuses not on legislation orgovernment officials but on local and state courts, where, authorAndrew Wender Cohen argues, a legal revolution was underwayin the early decades of the twentieth century. Legal actionshifted from the defense of property through the convictionof union leaders for conspiracy to the prosecution of corruptunion leaders |
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