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The labor question in America : economic democracy in the Gilded Age / Rosanne Currarino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currarino, Rosanne.
- Series:
- Working class in American history.
- Working class in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--United States--History--19th century.
- Working class.
- Working class--United States--History--20th century.
- Labor--United States--History.
- Labor.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, 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 should constitute full participation in American society? What standard of living should citizens expect and demand?" Currarino traces the diverse efforts to answer to these questions, from the fledgling trade union movement to contests over immigration, from economic theory to popular literature, from legal debates to social reform. The contradictory answers that emerged--one stressing economic participation in a consumer society, the other emphasizing property ownership and self-reliance--remain pressing today as contemporary scholars, journalists, and social critics grapple with the meaning of democracy in post-industrial America.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612959578
- 9781282959576
- 1282959573
- 9780252090103
- 0252090101
- OCLC:
- 841172530
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