现货The Neighborhood Outfit: Organized Crime in Chicago Heights[9780252038716]

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作者Corsino, Louis

出版社University of Illinois Press

ISBN9780252038716

出版时间2014-11

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页数184页

正文语种英语

上书时间2023-08-16

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商品描述: From the slot machine trust of the early 100s to the prolific Prohibition era bootleggers allied with Al Capone, and for decades beyond, organized crime in Chicago Heights, Illinois, represented a vital component of the Chicago Outfit. Louis Corsino taps interviews, archives, government documents, and his own familys history to tell the story of the Chicago Heights "boy and their place in the citys Italian American community in the twentieth century. Debunking the popular idea of organized crime as a uniquely Italian enterprise, Corsino delves into the social and cultural forces that contributed to illicit activities. As he shows, discrimination blocked opportunities for Italians social mobility and the close-knit Italian communities that arose in response to such limits produced a rich supply of social capital Italians used to pursue alternative routes to success that ranged from Italian grocery stores to union organizing to, on occasion, crime.

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