The UIC prof and former factory worker has no nostalgia for the days of middle-class manufacturing jobs. In the mid-70s, David Ranney quit his position at the University of Iowa, where he was a tenured professor of urban planning, and moved to Chicago for a job at the Workers' Rights Center, a free legal clinic for industrial workers run out of a southeast Chicago storefront. When money g…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PM on April 17, 2019