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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... workers of virtually every rank, trade, and ethnicity marching in support of an insurgent political campaign. Outraged by an unprecedented campaign of repression by business and civic leaders against organized labor that spring and ...
... workers that they could not live on wages as low as a dollar a day, he asserted that too many workingmen “insist on smoking and drinking beer.” A frugal workingman could support his family on a simple diet of bread and water, argued ...
... workers to challenge the veracity of antebellum freelabor mantras and embrace new modes of thinking and action. Critical to this development was the rise of a small but influential group of socialists and the Knights of Labor, which ...
... workers represents one of the most intriguing—and revealing—stories of late nineteenth-century labor history. He had been born in the Age of Jackson and reared on the principles of antebellum Christian perfectionism and free labor ...
... 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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