Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. (book reviews)

This is a superb book. Lizabeth Cohen has attempted nothing less than a major reinterpretation of how industrial workers became deeply involved with the union organizing drives of the 1930s. Rather than focusing on external stimuli such as governmental actions, Cohen explores in great deal the ways in which changes in working people's own attitudes allowed them to be participants in, indeed makers of, their New Deal.

Her themes are critically important, broadly conceived, and explored with imagination and verve. Her extensive research matches her intellectual vision, and she ...

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