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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... organized a very different event, the central message of which challenged the rosy assessments of the few days past. On the evening of Saturday, October 30, 1886, thousands of spectators lined the sidewalks of lower Manhattan to witness ...
... organizational and ideological strength to workers. In New York City, the capital of capitalism in the United States ... organization dedicated to fostering solidarity among working men and women, organizing new unions, and coordinating ...
... organized to resist this revolutionary transformation of their world, but their Workingmen's Party and General Trades Union efforts were no match for the emerging market economy.11 Henry George's maternal grandfather escaped the full ...
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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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