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Reinventing "The People" : the progressive movement, the class problem, and the origins of modern liberalism / Shelton Stromquist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stromquist, Shelton, 1943-
- Series:
- Working class in American history.
- The working class in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Political activity--United States.
- Working class.
- Social reformers--United States.
- Social reformers.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Progressivism (United States politics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comprehensive study of the Progressive movement, Reinventing "The People" contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social harmony through democratic renewal. Shelton Stromquist profiles the movement's work in diverse arenas of social reform, politics, labor regulation and so-called race improvement. While these reformers emphasized different programs, they crafted a common language of social reconciliation in which an imagined civic community--"the People"--would transcend parochial class and political loyalties. But efforts to invent a society without enduring class lines marginalized new immigrants and African Americans by declaring them unprepared for civic responsibilities. In so doing, Progressives laid the foundation for twentieth-century liberals' inability to see their world in class terms and to conceive of social remedies that might alter the structures of class power.
- Contents:
- The labor problem and the crisis of the old order
- Constituting progressivism
- The politics of reform
- Communities of reformers
- Class bridging and the world of female reform
- The boundaries of difference
- Class wars and the crisis of progressivism
- Conclusion: war and the ragged edges of reform.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613044105
- 9781283044103
- 1283044102
- 9780252092619
- 0252092619
- OCLC:
- 785782177
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