The labor question in America : economic democracy in the Gilded Age /

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Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife. As Americans confronted the glaring disparity between democracy's promises of independence and prosperity and the grim realities of economic want and wage labor, they asked, "What...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Currarino, Rosanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Colección:Working class in American history.
Temas:
1800-1999
Working class > United States > History > 19th century.
Working class > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor > United States > History.
Citizenship > United States.
Democracy > United States.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Citizenship
Democracy
Labor
Social conditions
Working class
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1865-1918.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the labor question in the late nineteenth century
  • The Cant of economy : narratives of depression in the 1870s
  • Meat versus rice : anti-Chinese rhetoric and the problem of wage work
  • The value of wages : historical economics and the meanings of value
  • "Labor wants more!" : the AFL and the idea of economic liberty
  • The end of the labor question
  • Afterword : residues of the labor question.

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