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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... votes and finishing second in a three-man contest.2 These two starkly contrasting events, separated only by a few days, illuminate the dramatically dualistic character of the Gilded Age, a period defined roughly between the years 1865 ...
... votes (31 percent), finishing second to Democrat Abram Hewitt (41 percent) and ahead of the third-place finisher, Republican Theodore Roosevelt (28 percent). Labor activists believed the results pointed to a dramatic resurgence of ...
... voted for the first time— for Lincoln—and in the coming year agonized over whether or not to join the Union Army, eventually deciding against it, he told others, out of fear that he would draw frontier duty in the West.33 The following ...
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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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