Umfang:
1 online resource(376 p.)
Ausgabe:
2015
ISBN:
9780231539265
Serie:
Columbia History of Urban Life
Inhalt:
A captivating portrait of the struggle between labor and capital during a formative period in the quest for workers' rights. Sven Beckert, Harvard University:At a time when issues of social inequality have moved again to the forefront of political debate, it is good to remind ourselves that throughout the past two centuries, Americans have passionately contested the severe inequalities that went along with the spectacular economic development of the nation. In the nineteenth century, few voices were as powerful, and had as lasting an impact as that of Henry George. Edward O'Donnell's political biography is a brilliant introduction to George's life, ideas and politics--showing that inequality can generate political movements that challenge the rich and powerful. Highly recommended Eric Foner, Columbia University:We have long needed a modern account of the ideas of Henry George, in the context of the vast inequalities of wealth of the Gilded Age, the rise of a powerful labor movement, and George's campaign for mayor of New York City in 1886. Edward O'Donnell has now provided it, in a fascinating book that shows how the social realities and conflicts of that era speak to our own unequal times. Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College:This social biography of Henry George is a beautifully written, deeply researched, carefully argued, and analytically nuanced book. O'Donnell's own prodigious research, as well as his talent for synthesizing the findings of other scholars, makes this a social and political history of Gilded Age America as seen through the lens of Henry George's extraordinary life
Inhalt:
The remarkable explosion of American 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 who to blame for this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published Progress and Poverty (1879), a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. His book, which became a surprise best-seller, offered a popular, provocative solution: 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 progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today.Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in Gilded Age New York. O'Donnell locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means last period in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value to ongoing debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, regulation, and political polarization
Anmerkung:
In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780231120005
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
George, Henry 1839-1897
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New York, NY
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Arbeiterbewegung
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Kapitalismus
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Sozialreform
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Geschichte 1880-1900
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