Nature's Laboratory : Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886-1937 / Elizabeth Grennan Browning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grennan Browning, Elizabeth, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable urban development--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Sustainable urban development.

Urbanization--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Browning shows how historical understandings of the complex interconnections between human nature and the natural world both reinforced and empowered resistance against the stratification of social and political power in the city.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. ""A Stupendous Piece of Blasphemy against Nature

Part I Nature's Laboratory of Anarchism and Capitalism

1 ""Pantries of Mother-Earth"": Haymarket and the Environmental Thought of Chicago's Anarchists

2 ""Return Continually to Nature"": Architecture and Urban Planning

Part II Nature's Laboratory of Pragmatism and Progressivism

3 ""Experience Is of as Well as in Nature"": John Dewey's Laboratory School and Environmental Aesthetics

4 ""Pliable Human Nature"": Hull-House Environmental Imaginaries of Labor and Health in the Progressive Era

Part III Nature's Laboratory of Technocratic Social Control

5 ""The City Is Remaking Human Nature"": Human Ecology and Race Relations at the Chicago School of Sociology

6 ""Failure to Come into Relation with His Environment"": The Hawthorne Experiments and the Human Relations Movement

Conclusion. ""Material for a New Creation"": Naturalizing Labor Relations from the New Deal to Neoliberalism

Notes

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Print version: Browning, Elizabeth Grennan Nature's Laboratory

ISBN:

9781421445229

OCLC:

1348482341