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.
