Monetary Reform in the Progressive Era
Author | : Joyce Goldy Skeels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Monetary policy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joyce Goldy Skeels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Monetary policy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard T. McCulley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2012-05-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0415528542 |
Despite the political potency of money and banking issues, historians have largely dismissed the Progressive Era political debate over banking as irrelevant and have been preoccupied with explaining the shortcomings, limitations and inadequacies of the Federal Reserve Act. The picture that has emerged is one of bankers controlling the course of financial reform with the assistance of political leaders who were either subservient, hopelessly naive or insincere in their public opposition to bankers. This book places their exertions in a larger, unfolding political context and traces in an analytical narrative the interplay of sectional and economic interests, political ideologies and partisan clashes that shaped the course of banking reform.
Author | : Elizabeth Sanders |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 1999-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226734773 |
Offering a revision of the understanding of the rise of the American regulatory state in the late 19th century, this book argues that politically mobilised farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control.
Author | : Robert H. Wiebe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
In this perceptive, influential study of the Progressive movement, Mr. Wiebe shows how businessmen helped to shape--and were shaped by--social reform in the early years of the 20th century. "Gracefully written, thoroughly researched, and imaginative." --American Historical Review.
Author | : Thomas C. Leonard |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2017-01-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691175861 |
In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross, together with their reform allies in social work, charity, journalism, and law, played a pivotal role in establishing minimum-wage and maximum-hours laws, workmen's compensation, progressive income taxes, antitrust regulation, and other hallmarks of the regulatory welfare state. But even as they offered uplift to some, economic progressives advocated exclusion for others, and did both in the name of progress. Leonard meticulously reconstructs the influence of Darwinism, racial science, and eugenics on scholars and activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing a reform community deeply ambivalent about America's poor. Economic progressives championed labor legislation because it would lift up the deserving poor while excluding immigrants, African Americans, women, and 'mental defectives, ' whom they vilified as low-wage threats to the American workingman and to Anglo-Saxon race integrity. Economic progressives rejected property and contract rights as illegitimate barriers to needed reforms. But their disregard for civil liberties extended much further. Illiberal Reformers shows that the intellectual champions of the regulatory welfare state proposed using it not to help those they portrayed as hereditary inferiors, but to exclude them. -- Provided by publisher.
Author | : Melanie Apel |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2006-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781404201965 |
Describes the Federal Reserve Bill and how it dramatically changed the banking system of the United States in the early twentieth century.
Author | : Richard Hofstadter |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-12-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307809641 |
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent historian comes a landmark in American political thought that examines the passion for progress and reform during 1890 to 1940. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
Author | : Stephen Skowronek |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300204841 |
Chapter 20. How the Progressives Became the Tea Party's Mortal Enemy: Networks, Movements, and the Political Currency of Ideas -- Chapter 21. What Is to Be Done? A New Progressivism for a New Century -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Author | : Walter Nugent |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2009-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199746559 |
After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that plunged working Americans into poverty while a new class of ostentatious millionaires built huge mansions and flaunted their wealth. As capitalism ran unchecked and more and more economic power was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, a sense of social crisis was pervasive. Progressive national leaders like William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as muckraking journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and social workers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald answered the growing call for change. They fought for worker's compensation, child labor laws, minimum wage and maximum hours legislation; they enacted anti-trust laws, improved living conditions in urban slums, instituted the graduated income tax, won women the right to vote, and laid the groundwork for Roosevelt's New Deal. Nugent shows that the progressives--with the glaring exception of race relations--shared a common conviction that society should be fair to all its members and that governments had a responsibility to see that fairness prevailed. Offering a succinct history of the broad reform movement that upset a stagnant conservative orthodoxy, this Very Short Introduction reveals many parallels, even lessons, highly appropriate to our own time. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Author | : Richard T. McCulley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Banks and banking |
ISBN | : 9780203108192 |