In this course, we will explore the struggles and triumph "inbetween peoples" after Reconstruction and before WWII.
After our last full class almost two weeks ago, when Professor Leon asked us why none of us really challenged the authors of the books we read in our blogs, I decided I was going to do so in this my final full-length post. Even if I agreed with ninety-nine percent of what the [...]
I spent much of the reading of Cohen’s book wanting to look beyond the scope which she chose to examine. Though her book is very clear that it is examining the “industrial workers in Chicago, 1919-1939,” I feel that this choice, as much as it allows for specificity, is limiting for readers
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According to Cohen’s Making a New Deal, the attitudes of Chicago’s working class radically shifted during the Great Depression. Whereas in the 1920s, the working class relied on either their own ethnic institutions for assistance or their employers’ less stable benefits, in [...]