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This 4 page paper discusses Lizabeth Cohen's book "Making a New Deal," about the rise of labor unions in Chicago in the 1930s, after decades of being unable to organize. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Century. This paper discusses her book and the great transformation that occurred in among workers at the time, and explains that transformation in the context of three concurrent trends. The
Transformation The great transformation that is the focus of Cohens book is the rise of a solid union movement in the 1930s, an event that seemed unlikely given the failure
of organizing during a series of strikes in 1919 and the fact that workers "refrained from unionism and national politics during the 1920s (Cohen, 1991, p. 5). How was it
that workers suddenly succeeded "in the thirties as both CIO trade unionists and Democratic party faithfuls?" (Cohen, 1991, p. 5). Cohen argues that "Working-class Americans underwent a gradual shift
in attitudes and behavior over the intervening decade and a half as a result of a wide range of social and cultural experiences" (Cohen, 1991, p. 6). These experiences were
very diverse and included such things as "where workers turned for help in good times and bad," and how they reacted to the proliferation of the new chain stores, and
whether they enjoyed the new types of entertainment provided by the movies and radio, or "preferred the comfort of more familiar ethnic associations" (Cohen, 1991, p. 6). All of these
experiences help to explain how the politics of these workers evolved (Cohen, 1991). The solidarity that crystallized into the strong union movements of the 1930s is all the more remarkable
given the fact that in general, workers were suspicious of each other, because they were "[I]solated in local neighborhoods and fragmented by ethnicity and race" (Cohen, 1991, p. 13). Often,
management used the tension between ethnic groups as a way to manipulate the workers by using the technique of divide and conquer; it became obvious that a "successful...strike in the
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