| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.1

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Georg Leidenberger. Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. Pp. 202. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $35.00.

In Chicago's Progressive Alliance, Georg Leidenberger argues that an intensely democratic "progressive moment" developed in Chicago in the years around 1900. At this time, he asserts, a broad reform coalition called for municipal ownership of streetcars and trade unions exhibited radical democratic qualities, but the failure to gain municipal ownership marked a shift from idealistic democratic public action to elite-driven technocratic functionalism. Leidenberger succeeds in demonstrating all three patterns despite this volume's slimness.

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