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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... Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity, 1990 Chris McNickle, To Be Mayor of New York: Ethnic Politics in the City, 1993 Clay McShane, Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City, 1994 Clarence Taylor, The ...
... masses of our people are better fed, clothed, and housed than their fathers were. ... No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent ... and so full of generous suggestion to ...
... masses.” One of the most pointed and widely read analyses of the Gilded Age's social turmoil was Progress and Poverty, published in 1879 by Henry George, the man nominated by the ULP as labor's candidate for mayor of New York in 1886 ...
... mass poverty, restricted opportunity, and increased inequality that accompanied industrial progress, the book became immensely popular among the urban working class. George's work of radical republicanism hit the presses at precisely ...
... masses of the people, the stronger, richer, and nobler is. Henry George, at age 26 in California (1865). Author's collection The Great Uprising of 1877. “The Great Strike—The Sixth Maryland. “To Be Something and Somebody in the World” 19.
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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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