Progressive inequality [electronic resource]: rich and poor in New York, 1890-1920 / David Huyssen.
2014
HC108.N7 H89 2014eb
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Progressive inequality [electronic resource]: rich and poor in New York, 1890-1920 / David Huyssen.
Author
Huyssen, David, 1979-
ISBN
9780674419520 electronic book
Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations
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10.4159/harvard.9780674419520 DOI
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HC108.N7 H89 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.509747/109041
Summary
"The Progressive Era has been depicted as a seismic event in American history -- a landslide of reform that curbed capitalist excesses and reduced the gulf between rich and poor. Progressive Inequality cuts against the grain of this popular consensus, demonstrating how income inequality's growth prior to the stock market crash of 1929 continued to aggravate class divisions...Huyssen interweaves dramatic stories of wealthy and poor New Yorkers at the turn of the twentieth century, uncovering how initiatives in charity, labor struggles, and housing reform chafed against social, economic, and cultural differences" -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Invading the tenements
Stanny's empire on the Bowery
In America
we only look to make money?
To love with severity
The business of godly charity
Letters of intent
I feel you have done me great injustice
My political attitude is making some of our generous friends uneasy
Making a killing
Prime law? Trumps right of revolution
Sisters in struggle
There is nothing socialistic or suffragistic in the project
Sisters at odds
Absolute authority as to both men and measures
Mother Jones's last stand
Epilogue : recognizing class in ourselves.
Stanny's empire on the Bowery
In America
we only look to make money?
To love with severity
The business of godly charity
Letters of intent
I feel you have done me great injustice
My political attitude is making some of our generous friends uneasy
Making a killing
Prime law? Trumps right of revolution
Sisters in struggle
There is nothing socialistic or suffragistic in the project
Sisters at odds
Absolute authority as to both men and measures
Mother Jones's last stand
Epilogue : recognizing class in ourselves.