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Urban revolt: Ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement

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Urban revolt: Ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement

Sujet

mouvement social, emploi, politique de la ville, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, Chicago, histoire urbaine, sciences politiques, ethnicité, Hirsch Eric L.

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I became interested in nineteenth-century Chicago labor history in an indirect way. I had begun a study of political mobilization in Chicago community organizing and felt that I could not understand the political process that led to such mobilization without also understanding the underlying political and economic forces that created issues for community groups. I undertook a study of disinvestment in an aging industrial city - investigating Chicago's loss of thousands of manufacturing jobs, the denial of mortgages and loans to black inner-city neighborhoods, and the flight of many middle-class residents to the suburbs. The political and economic consequences of these underlying trends resulted in the mobilization of community groups to fight job loss, crime, redlining, and housing abandonment.
 
I also became fascinated with the idea of comparing movements that arose as a result of decline and disinvestment with movements that responded to growth and investment in Chicago in its early history. I wanted to be able to answer the question how movements reacting to industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth-century Chicago differed from movements responding to deindustrialization and population loss. I also wanted to understand why the protest movements in the nineteenth century were generally labor oriented, but post-World War II, twentieth-century protests were more likely to be carried out by community organizations.
 
This interest led me to study the Chicago labor movement in the 1870s and 1880s, a period of industrialization and urban growth.
  Eric L. Hirsch is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.  

Créateur

Eric L. Hirsch

Éditeur

University of California Press

Date

1990

Format

253

Type

Ouvrage

Identifiant

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft40000586/