Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded AgeColumbia University Press, 9 Jun 2015 - 368 halaman 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 critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today. |
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... ... commenced to wrestle with their chains. —Labor activist C. P. Atkinson, on the impact of Henry George Contents Acknowledgments xi List ofAbbreviations xv Introduction xvii PART I. and Progress and Poverty on American workers, 1886.
... 69 4. “Radically and Essentially the Same”: Irish American Nationalism and American Labor 97 5. “Labor Built This Republic, Labor Shall Rule It” 128 PART III. The Great Upheaval, 1886–1887 6. “The Country Is Table of Contents.
... 1886, thousands of spectators lined the sidewalks of lower Manhattan to witness one of the more extraordinary events in the city's history—a “Monster Parade” of some thirty thousand workers of virtually every rank, trade, and ethnicity ...
... Henry George, the man nominated by the ULP as labor's candidate for mayor of New York in 1886. The book's title itself perfectly captured the vexing duality emerging in late nineteenth-century America: the great progress for some and ...
... Henry George come to assume so important a place in it? Labor's mobilization ... 1886, after city and state officials responded to a wave of strikes and ... Henry George? Or, put another way, how did a middle-class English-American ...
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The Emergence of New Political Forces 18801885 | 67 |
The Great Upheaval 18861887 | 167 |
Epilogue | 277 |
Notes | 283 |
Index
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