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The struggle for America's promise : equal opportunity at the dawn of corporate capital /

"In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations of the Gilded Age. Some proponents...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldstene, Claire
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "This haven of equal opportunity to all"
  • Equal opportunity as landownership : Booker T. Washington's Quest
  • Equal opportunity in labor : producerism and the Knights of Labor
  • Anarchism and equal opportunity : Emma Goldman in America
  • Equal opportunity remade I : Samuel Gompers and the pursuit of leisure and consumption
  • Equal opportunity remade II : business organizes
  • Edward Bellamy and the reimagining of equal opportunity.