American Labor And Economic Citizenship
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Author | : Mark Hendrickson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 9781107341920 |
Argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.
Author | : Evelyn Nakano Glenn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2004-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674263820 |
The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights. After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America.
Author | : Rosanne Currarino |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0252090101 |
In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife. As Americans confronted the glaring disparity between democracy's promises of independence and prosperity and the grim realities of economic want and wage labor, they asked, "What should constitute full participation in American society? What standard of living should citizens expect and demand?" Currarino traces the diverse efforts to answer to these questions, from the fledgling trade union movement to contests over immigration, from economic theory to popular literature, from legal debates to social reform. The contradictory answers that emerged--one stressing economic participation in a consumer society, the other emphasizing property ownership and self-reliance--remain pressing today as contemporary scholars, journalists, and social critics grapple with the meaning of democracy in post-industrial America.
Author | : Mark Hendrickson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110735529X |
Once viewed as a distinct era characterized by intense bigotry, nostalgia for simpler times and a revulsion against active government, the 1920s have been rediscovered by historians in recent decades as a time when Herbert Hoover and his allies worked to significantly reform economic policy. Mark Hendrickson both augments and amends this view by studying the origins and development of New Era policy expertise and knowledge. Policy-oriented social scientists in government, trade union, academic and nonprofit agencies showed how methods for achieving stable economic growth through increased productivity could both defang the dreaded business cycle and defuse the pattern of hostile class relations that Gilded Age depressions had helped to set as an American system of industrial relations.
Author | : Meg Jacobs |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2007-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400843782 |
"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreaking study, Meg Jacobs demonstrates how pocketbook politics provided the engine for American political conflict throughout the twentieth century. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, national politics turned on public anger over the high cost of living. Beginning with the explosion of prices at the turn of the century, every strike, demonstration, and boycott was, in effect, a protest against rising prices and inadequate income. On one side, a reform coalition of ordinary Americans, mass retailers, and national politicians fought for laws and policies that promoted militant unionism, government price controls, and a Keynesian program of full employment. On the other, small businessmen fiercely resisted this low-price, high-wage agenda that threatened to bankrupt them. This book recaptures this dramatic struggle, beginning with the immigrant Jewish, Irish, and Italian women who flocked to Edward Filene's famous Boston bargain basement that opened in 1909 and ending with the Great Inflation of the 1970s. Pocketbook Politics offers a new interpretation of state power by integrating popular politics and elite policymaking. Unlike most social historians who focus exclusively on consumers at the grass-roots, Jacobs breaks new methodological ground by insisting on the centrality of national politics and the state in the nearly century-long fight to fulfill the American Dream of abundance.
Author | : Jacob Harry Hollander |
Publisher | : Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Economics |
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Author | : Alice Kessler-Harris |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195158021 |
A major new work by a leading women's historian and a study of how a "gendered imagination" has shaped social policy in America. Illustrations.
Author | : Thomas Nixon Carver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Communities |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David M. Ricci |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2004-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521543705 |
Good Citizenship in America describes a civic ideal of who enjoys membership in the state and what obligations that entails, and traces its history in America. Until 1865, this ideal called for virtuous political behavior (republicanism) but extended the franchise beyond early republican expectations (democracy). The book follows the widening of the franchise to women and people of color and to those with little or no property following economic development post 1865. In the twentieth century, the civic ideal was influenced by the increase of consumerism, its peak after World War II, and its subsequent decline. More recent citizenship, informed by environmental problems and growing global Darwinism, places a bigger and bigger emphasis on the 'economic conscience'. This is an easily accessible analysis of civic trends in America, and one that highlights much of what is decent in American life.
Author | : Ray Osgood Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
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