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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... City, 1840–1857, 1981 Matthew Edel, Elliott D. Sclar, and Daniel Luria, Shaky Palaces: Homeownership and Social Mobility in Boston's Suburbanization, 1984 Steven J. Ross, Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in ...
... City on October 28, 1886, to witness the unveiling of the completed Statue of Liberty. Among those present were ... city's elite, seized upon the occasion to deliver his own speech lauding democracy and self-government as the best ...
... city, a very different set of citizens organized a very different event, the central message of which challenged the rosy ... city's history—a “Monster Parade” of some thirty thousand workers of virtually every rank, trade, and ethnicity ...
... City, the capital of capitalism in the United States, labor activists faced an enormous challenge. The city's great size, dynamic economy, and diverse ethnic and cultural demography made for difficult conditions in which to encourage ...
... City workers formed the ULP in the summer of 1886, they chose George as their nominee. George came to lead one of the most energetic and democratic campaigns in the city's history. The ULP lacked the money, experience, and access to ...
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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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