Henry George and the crisis of inequality : progress and poverty in the gilded age /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: O'Donnell, Edward T., 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Columbia history of urban life.
Subjects:
George, Henry, > 1839-1897.
George, Henry, > 1839-1897
1800-1899
Equality > New York (State) > New York.
Poverty > New York (State) > New York.
Labor movement > New York (State) > New York.
Pauvreté > New York (État) > New York.
Mouvement ouvrier > New York (État) > New York.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Economy.
Equality
Labor movement
Poverty
Social conditions
Sozialreform
Kapitalismus
Arbeiterbewegung
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
New York (State) > New York
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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