The Racketeer's Progress by Andrew Wender Cohen
The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. It explains how carpenters, teamsters, barbers, musicians and others organised to thwart ambitious national corporations. Unions and associations governed commerce through pickets, assaults and bombings. Scholars often ignore this defiance, painting modernisation as a consensual process and presenting craftsmen as reactionary, corrupt and criminal. This is ironic, for the tradesmen's reputation derives from their successful struggle to control modernisation and the emerging consumer economy. Their resistance redirected American law. Progressive-era courts rebuked the craftsmen for attempting to govern trade. In the 1920s, the tradesmen inspired new criminal concepts, such as 'racketeering'. But the Great Depression reversed harsh laws. The craftsmen became a model for New Deal recovery statutes and a focus for constitutional debates. Meanwhile, the state began protecting unions against gangsters like Al Capone.-
Before Dred Scott
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The Crisis of Imprisonment
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Final Freedom
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The Deviant Prison
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Gangster of New York
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Thresholds of Accusation
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
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City of Courts
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The Law of the Whale Hunt
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The Jurisprudence of Style
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Gender Remade
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The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War
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Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox
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Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 17901900
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Conjugal Misconduct
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Injury Impoverished
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A Judgment for Solomon
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Slavery and Sacred Texts
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Law's Imagined Republic
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The Turn to Process
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Owning Ideas
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Family, Law, and Inheritance in America
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The Bondsman's Burden
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Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004
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The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State
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Recalibrating Reform
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From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime
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The Forgotten Emancipator
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Jim Crow Moves North
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Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
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Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection
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Bonds of Empire
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Making the Modern American Fiscal State
Review of the hardback: 'Insisting that we look beyond the gleaming factories and department stores that have dominated the historical literature to the highly complex, unstable, and violent world of small businessmen and skilled craftsmen that dominated the early twentieth-century city and fiercely resisted the triumph of corporate capitalism, Andrew Cohen makes us look at the social organisation of the city anew and develops a bracing reinterpretation of the political economy of the Progressive Era and New DealProdigiously researched and boldly argued, this is revisionist history at its best.' George Chauncey, University of Chicago
Cohen, Andrew Wender: - Andrew Wender Cohen is associate professor of history at Syracuse University. He lives with his family in central New York.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521834667 |
| ISBN 10 | 052183466X |
| Title | The Racketeer's Progress |
| Author | Andrew Wender Cohen |
| Series | Cambridge Historical Studies In American Law And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2004-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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