Chicago Labor in Politics 1877-96

Politics in Small Town Illinois: Is It Similar to Chicago and Illinois State

Preliminary Explorations of Latinos and Politics: Findings from the Chicago-Area Survey

In recent years the political orientations and growing influence of the rapidly expanding US Latino population has been of increasing interest to political parties and commentators, elected officials, and the general public. The 2004 elections underscored the current and future significance of Latinos in US politics at local, state, and national levels. Although this phenomenon has been the foc...

Enforcing Medical Licensing in Illinois: 1877-1890

Today, physicians are perhaps the most regulated professionals in the United States, but in 1870, almost all of them were unlicensed. In most jurisdictions, anyone could hang up a shingle and practice medicine. Only the Dakota Territory and Ohio required physicians to register with local authorities. Between 1870 and 1900, the practice of medicine changed dramatically, and by 1900, almost every...

Cheap Labor: The New Politics of “Bread and Roses” in Industrial Democracies

In this article we aim to return labor (particularly the most vulnerable members of the labor market) to the core of the comparative political economy of advanced democracies. We formulate a framework with which to conceptualize cheap labor in advanced democracies. We propose that to understand the politics of cheap labor, the weakest members of the labor market need to be divided into two stru...

Birth control and the population question in England 1877–1930

of the Council strengthened. Scientific standards were also raised. Reform was too slow for firebrands like Babbage and his supporters. Dr Marie Boas Hall has presented a very balanced account of the ensuing debate on the decline of English science. No one today can accept without reservation Babbage's hysterical outburst on this subject. His views were based on a misapprehension of the functio...