Author: Chicago (Ill.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Chicago for the Council Year ...
Author: Chicago (Ill.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Chicago for the Council Year ...
Author: Chicago (Ill.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2674
Book Description
Building a Housewife's Paradise
Author: Tracey DeutschPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898341
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Supermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that Americans feed themselves. In her examination of the history of food distribution in the United States, Deutsch demonstrates the important roles that gender, business, class, and the state played in the evolution of American grocery stores. Deutsch's analysis reframes shopping as labor and embeds consumption in the structures of capitalism. The supermarket, that icon of postwar American life, emerged not from straightforward consumer demand for low prices, Deutsch argues, but through government regulations, women customers' demands, and retailers' concerns with financial success and control of the "shop floor." From small neighborhood stores to huge corporate chains of supermarkets, Deutsch traces the charged story of the origins of contemporary food distribution, treating topics as varied as everyday food purchases, the sales tax, postwar celebrations and critiques of mass consumption, and 1960s and 1970s urban insurrections. Demonstrating connections between women's work and the history of capitalism, Deutsch locates the origins of supermarkets in the politics of twentieth-century consumption.
City Documents
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Property Taxation 1941
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Property tax
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
State and Local Government Special Studies
Author: Blueprint for Disaster
Author: D. Bradford HuntPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226360873
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging explanations that attribute the projects’ decline primarily to racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues that well-intentioned but misguided policy decisions—ranging from design choices to maintenance contracts—also paved the road to failure. Moreover, administrators who fully understood the potential drawbacks did not try to halt such deeply flawed projects as Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes. These massive high-rise complexes housed unprecedented numbers of children but relatively few adults, engendering disorder that pushed out the working class and, consequently, the rents needed to maintain the buildings. The resulting combination of fiscal crisis, managerial incompetence, and social unrest plunged the CHA into a quagmire from which it is still struggling to emerge. Blueprint for Disaster, then,is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: The Northeastern Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio.
Touching Base
Author: Steven A. RiessPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252055322
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America's national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball while exploring how Progressive Era sensibilities shaped debates over issues like Sunday games, ballpark construction, and promotion of the games. Focusing on Atlanta, New York, and Chicago, Riess looks at all the participants--from spectators to owners to players--in analyzing how baseball both influenced and mirrored broader society.