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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... traditional American political idioms and concepts infused with new, radical meaning, Progress and Poverty provided American workers with an ideological framework with which to analyze their predicament and changing circumstances. It ...
... traditional biography of the man. As a result, this work combines biography, intellectual history, and social history to examine and make sense of his time and thought as a thinker and activist. It seeks to explain the origins and ...
... traditional artisan's training in the “art and mystery” of engraving while a young man in Scotland, a process that embodied the core elements of this pre-modern order, following the traditional path from apprentice, to journeyman, to ...
... traditional forms and rules of craft production. These entrepreneurial masters took in more apprentices but taught them only a portion of the craft. They set journeymen to perform only some of the necessary tasks needed to produce a ...
... traditional artisan's world of small-scale production, craft integrity, mutual obligations, and anticipated advancement before a new reality of segmented work, low wages, and fading hopes among journeymen of ever obtaining a competence ...
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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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