The Labor Question in America
Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 13 January 2011
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780252035708
- Binding Hardback
- See also 9780252077869
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 229x152x18 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
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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.
Table of Contents:
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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Labor Question in the Late Nineteenth Century
1. The Cant of Economy: Narratives of Depression in the 1870s
2. Meat versus Rice: Anti-Chinese Rhetoric and the Problem of Wage Work
3. The Value of Wages: Historical Economics and the Meanings of Value
4. ""Labor Wants More!"": The AFL and the Idea of Economic Liberty
5. The End of the Labor Question
Afterword. Residues of the Labor Question
Notes
Index
Back Cover
