The labor question in America : economic democracy in the Gilded Age

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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...

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Main Author: Currarino, Rosanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2011
Series:Working class in American history.
Subjects:
Working class > United States > History > 19th century.
Working class > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor > United States > History.
Citizenship > United States.
Democracy > United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the labor question in the late nineteenth century
  • The Cant of economy : narratives of depression in the 1870s
  • Meat versus rice : anti-Chinese rhetoric and the problem of wage work
  • The value of wages : historical economics and the meanings of value
  • "Labor wants more!" : the AFL and the idea of economic liberty
  • The end of the labor question
  • Afterword : residues of the labor question.

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