Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality : : Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age / / Edward O'Donnell.
America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical critiqu...
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O'Donnell, Edward, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality : Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age / Edward O'Donnell. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (376 p.) : 23 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Columbia History of Urban Life Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. The Making of a Radical, 1839-1879 -- 1. "To Be Something and Somebody in the World" -- 2. "Poverty Enslaves Men We Boast Are Political Sovereigns": Progress and Poverty and Henry George's Republicanism -- PART II. The Emergence of "New Political Forces," 1880-1885 -- 3. "New York Is an Immense City": The Empire City in the Early 1880s -- 4. "Radically and Essentially the Same": Irish American Nationalism and American Labor -- 5. "Labor Built This Republic, Labor Shall Rule It" -- PART III. The Great Upheaval, 1886-1887 -- 6. "The Country Is Drifting into Danger" -- 7. "To Save Ourselves from Ruin" -- 8. "Your Party Will Go Into Pieces" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today.Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Equality New York (State) New York. Equality; New York (State); New York. Labor movement New York (State) New York Labor movement; New York (State); New York. Poverty New York (State) New York. Poverty; New York (State); New York. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665864 print 9780231120005 https://doi.org/10.7312/odon12000 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231539265 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231539265/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. The Making of a Radical, 1839-1879 -- 1. "To Be Something and Somebody in the World" -- 2. "Poverty Enslaves Men We Boast Are Political Sovereigns": Progress and Poverty and Henry George's Republicanism -- PART II. The Emergence of "New Political Forces," 1880-1885 -- 3. "New York Is an Immense City": The Empire City in the Early 1880s -- 4. "Radically and Essentially the Same": Irish American Nationalism and American Labor -- 5. "Labor Built This Republic, Labor Shall Rule It" -- PART III. The Great Upheaval, 1886-1887 -- 6. "The Country Is Drifting into Danger" -- 7. "To Save Ourselves from Ruin" -- 8. "Your Party Will Go Into Pieces" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
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