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'Based upon prodigious reseach, Making a New Deal carefully assesses the diversity of workers' social experience, examining African-American and Mexican workers as well as eastern and southern Europeans. At every step the argument is developed in a sophisticated way ... Making a New Deal constitutes a major achievement and deserves the central position in historians' discussions that it will probably receive.' Julia Greene, Journal of American History
'Like the best new labor historians, she studies working people outside their workplaces, but like the best old labor historians, she emphasizes the importance of workplace and union building in their lives.' David Nasaw, The Nation
'This is a terrific book. Cohen skillfully uses a mass of sources to paint a richly detailed portrait of working-class life in the 1920s and 1930s. Literally dozens of subjects ignored or inadequately treated in previous studies are discussed with care and subtlety here: workers and installment buying, ethnic records, chain stores, early radio, youth clubs, company-sponsored sports teams, and the collapse of ethnic institutions in the Great Depression, to name just a few. Cohen is really the first historian to look at twentieth-century consumption patterns 'from the bottom up'.' Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A&P. As they made daily decisions like these, they declared their loyalty in ways that would ultimately have political significance. When the depression worsened in the 1930s, workers adopted new ideological perspectives and overcame longstanding divisions among themselves to mount new kinds of collective action. Chicago workers' experiences all converged to make them into New Deal Democrats and CIO unionists. First printed in 1990, Making a New Deal has become an established classic in American history. The second edition includes a new preface by Lizabeth Cohen.
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