The Labor Question in America
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The Labor Question in America

Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age

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The Labor Question in America

Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age

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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.

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780252090103
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction. The Labor Question in the Late Nineteenth Century
  7. 1. The Cant of Economy: Narratives of Depression in the 1870s
  8. 2. Meat versus Rice: Anti-Chinese Rhetoric and the Problem of Wage Work
  9. 3. The Value of Wages: Historical Economics and the Meanings of Value
  10. 4. “Labor Wants More!”: The AFL and the Idea of Economic Liberty
  11. 5. The End of the Labor Question
  12. Afterword. Residues of the Labor Question
  13. Notes
  14. Index