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Pioneering and well-researched. Leidenberger argues persuasively that Chicago workers, far from being more apolitical than their British or European counterparts, were at the heart of municipal reform politics during the Progressive era. Urban History This is a very compelling story of Chicago labor and progressive politics. Leidenberger uses the struggle over urban transit to highlight shifting currents in the city s urban politics. Commendably, he gives Chicago s turn-of-the-century labor movement the central role it deserves in this drama. H. Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa Concise and clearly articulated, this argument successfully defends the notion that labor organizations had both power and public support, albeit briefly, for a broader vision of public policy. American Historical Review

<p> Pioneering and well-researched. Leidenberger argues persuasively that Chicago workers, far from being more apolitical than their British or European counterparts, were at the heart of municipal reform politics during the Progressive era. -- Urban History <p> This is a very compelling story of Chicago labor and progressive politics. Leidenberger uses the struggle over urban transit to highlight shifting currents in the city's urban politics. Commendably, he gives Chicago's turn-of-the-century labor movement the central role it deserves in this drama. --H. Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa<p> Concise and clearly articulated, this argument successfully defends the notion that labor organizations had both power and public support, albeit briefly, for a broader vision of public policy. -- American Historical Review

Pioneering and well-researched. Leidenberger argues persuasively that Chicago workers, far from being more apolitical than their British or European counterparts, were at the heart of municipal reform politics during the Progressive era. -- Urban History This is a very compelling story of Chicago labor and progressive politics. Leidenberger uses the struggle over urban transit to highlight shifting currents in the city's urban politics. Commendably, he gives Chicago's turn-of-the-century labor movement the central role it deserves in this drama. --H. Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa Concise and clearly articulated, this argument successfully defends the notion that labor organizations had both power and public support, albeit briefly, for a broader vision of public policy. -- American Historical Review

Pioneering and well-researched. Leidenberger argues persuasively that Chicago workers, far from being more apolitical than their British or European counterparts, were at the heart of municipal reform politics during the Progressive era. --Urban History This is a very compelling story of Chicago labor and progressive politics. Leidenberger uses the struggle over urban transit to highlight shifting currents in the city's urban politics. Commendably, he gives Chicago's turn-of-the-century labor movement the central role it deserves in this drama. --H. Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa Concise and clearly articulated, this argument successfully defends the notion that labor organizations had both power and public support, albeit briefly, for a broader vision of public policy. --American Historical Review

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Georg Leidenberger is Professor of History at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City.

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