Labor Question in America Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age

Name: Labor Question in America Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age
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ISBN: 9780252077869

ISBN-10: 0252077865

ISBN-13: 9780252077869

Edition: 2011

Authors: Rosanne Currarino

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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 labour, 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…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 1/7/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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


Notes


Index