Margaret Garb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3956108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Garb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Garb |
| SIGNATURE | GARB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adam Mack. Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers
Empowerment as Ceremony
Public housing in the United States
Michael Innis-Jiménez. Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915–1940
Journal Article Michael Innis-Jiménez. Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915–1940. Get access Michael Innis-Jiménez. Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915–1940. (Culture, Labor, History Series.) New York: New York University Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 235. Cloth $79.00, paper $27.00. Margaret Garb Margaret Garb Washington University in St. Louis [email protected] Search for other works by this autho…
The Great Chicago Waiters' Strike: Producing Urban Space, Organizing Labor, Challenging Racial Divides in 1890s Chicago
In the 1890s, restaurant and hotel waiters in Chicago formed a biracial labor organization that successfully challenged their employers. The Culinary Alliance, a rare example of biracial unionism in the late nineteenth century, was produced by, and helped to shape, a dramatic reorganization of urban space with the emergence of corporate capitalism and consumer culture in the city. The Alliance's rise and demise demonstrates the ways urban space w…
Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago
The Political Education of John Jones: Black Politics in a Northern City, 1845–1879
Drawing the “Color Line”: Race and Real Estate in Early Twentieth-Century Chicago
Emphasizing the importance of exclusion in the formation of urban neighborhoods, this study of early twentieth-century Chicago provides new insights into the significance of real estate markets in the development of racial segregation. Chicago's “color line” emerged from the decisions and strategies of owners, salesmen, entrepreneurs, developers, and neighborhood associations, who joined together in a concerted campaign to evermore securely link …
Health, Morality, and Housing: The “Tenement Problem” in Chicago
In this article, I trace the history of Chicago’s Health Department, exploring when and how housing conditions came to be considered a serious social problem requiring municipal regulation. Although journalists and labor leaders were among the first Chicagoans to link tenement housing to the spread of contagious disease, Health Department officials quickly began regulating the city’s housing stock under their own authority. I argue that in attemp…
Drawing the “Color Line”: Race and Real Estate in Early Twentieth-Century Chicago
Emphasizing the importance of exclusion in the formation of urban neighborhoods, this study of early twentieth-century Chicago provides new insights into the significance of real estate markets in the development of racial segregation. Chicago's “color line” emerged from the decisions and strategies of owners, salesmen, entrepreneurs, developers, and neighborhood associations, who joined together in a concerted campaign to evermore securely link …
The Great Chicago Waiters' Strike: Producing Urban Space, Organizing Labor, Challenging Racial Divides in 1890s Chicago
In the 1890s, restaurant and hotel waiters in Chicago formed a biracial labor organization that successfully challenged their employers. The Culinary Alliance, a rare example of biracial unionism in the late nineteenth century, was produced by, and helped to shape, a dramatic reorganization of urban space with the emergence of corporate capitalism and consumer culture in the city. The Alliance's rise and demise demonstrates the ways urban space w…
Health, Morality, and Housing: The “Tenement Problem” in Chicago
In this article, I trace the history of Chicago’s Health Department, exploring when and how housing conditions came to be considered a serious social problem requiring municipal regulation. Although journalists and labor leaders were among the first Chicagoans to link tenement housing to the spread of contagious disease, Health Department officials quickly began regulating the city’s housing stock under their own authority. I argue that in attemp…
Drawing the “Color Line”: Race and Real Estate in Early Twentieth-Century Chicago
Emphasizing the importance of exclusion in the formation of urban neighborhoods, this study of early twentieth-century Chicago provides new insights into the significance of real estate markets in the development of racial segregation. Chicago's “color line” emerged from the decisions and strategies of owners, salesmen, entrepreneurs, developers, and neighborhood associations, who joined together in a concerted campaign to evermore securely link …
The Political Education of John Jones: Black Politics in a Northern City, 1845–1879
Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago
Public housing in the United States
Michael Innis-Jiménez. Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915–1940
Journal Article Michael Innis-Jiménez. Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915–1940. Get access Michael Innis-Jiménez. Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915–1940. (Culture, Labor, History Series.) New York: New York University Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 235. Cloth $79.00, paper $27.00. Margaret Garb Margaret Garb Washington University in St. Louis [email protected] Search for other works by this autho…
The Great Chicago Waiters' Strike: Producing Urban Space, Organizing Labor, Challenging Racial Divides in 1890s Chicago
In the 1890s, restaurant and hotel waiters in Chicago formed a biracial labor organization that successfully challenged their employers. The Culinary Alliance, a rare example of biracial unionism in the late nineteenth century, was produced by, and helped to shape, a dramatic reorganization of urban space with the emergence of corporate capitalism and consumer culture in the city. The Alliance's rise and demise demonstrates the ways urban space w…
Adam Mack. Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers
Empowerment as Ceremony
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works)