Progressive inequality [electronic resource]: rich and poor in New York, 1890-1920 / David Huyssen.

9780674419520 electronic book

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

English

1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations

10.4159/harvard.9780674419520 DOI

HC108.N7 H89 2014eb

305.509747/109041

"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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