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Henry George and the crisis of inequality : progress and poverty in the gilded age
Title
Henry George and the crisis of inequality : progress and poverty in the gilded age / Edward O'Donnell.
ISBN
9780231539265 (ebook) :
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 30, 2015).
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Summary
America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the 19th century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. This exploration of George's life and times merges labour, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labour movement in Gilded Age New York.
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Columbia scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 06, 2016
Series
Columbia history of urban life
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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