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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... Swinton's Paper New York State Bureau of Labor Statistics Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the Relations Between Labor and Capital United Labor Party Introduction More than a million people gathered in New York List of ...
... Swinton, the influential editor of a weekly labor newspaper. “It was a revolt that signifies the opening of a new political era.” Observing events across the Atlantic from London, Frederick Engels concurred: “The Henry George boom ...
... Swinton, the brother of New York City labor radical John Swinton. Finally, it provided the context for yet another of George's mystical visions similar to the one experienced in New York City, this time connecting the growth of poverty ...
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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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