Inequalities And The Progressive Era
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Inequalities And The Progressive Era
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Author : Guillaume Vallet
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06-26
Inequalities And The Progressive Era written by Guillaume Vallet and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-26 with Business & Economics categories.
Inequalities and the Progressive Era features contributors from all corners of the world, each exploring a different type of inequality during the ‘Progressive Era’ (1890s-1930s). Though this era is most associated with the United States, it corresponds to a historical period in which profound changes and progress are realized or expected all over the globe.
Progressive Inequality
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Author : David Huyssen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-10
Progressive Inequality written by David Huyssen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-10 with History categories.
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. As David Huyssen makes clear, Progressive attempts to alleviate economic injustice often had the effect of entrenching class animosity, making it more, not less, acute. 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. These cross-class actions took three main forms: prescription, in which the rich attempted to dictate the behavior of the poor; cooperation, in which mutual interest engendered good-faith collaboration; and conflict, in which sharply diverging interests produced escalating class violence. In cases where reform backfired, it reinforced a set of class biases that remain prevalent in America today, especially the notion that wealth derives from individual merit and poverty from lack of initiative. A major contribution to the history of American capitalism, Progressive Inequality makes tangible the abstract dynamics of class relations by recovering the lived encounters between rich and poor—as allies, adversaries, or subjects to inculcate—and opens a rare window onto economic and social debates in our own time.
The New Economic Populism
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Author : William W. Franko
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The New Economic Populism written by William W. Franko and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Business & Economics categories.
Introduction -- Economic inequality, federalism and the new economic populism -- Growing inequality and public awareness of inequality in the States -- Awareness of inequality and government liberalism -- Taxing the rich : the initiative, attitudes toward inequality, and Washington's proposition 1098 -- State responses to federal inaction and growing inequality : the case of the minimum wage -- Building on success : the case of the earned income tax credit -- The new economic populism and the future of inequality in the U.S -- Appendix A: Measurement and methodology -- Appendix B: Data and results -- Notes -- References -- Index
Two Nations Indivisible
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Author : Jamie L. Bronstein
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-10-17
Two Nations Indivisible written by Jamie L. Bronstein and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-17 with Social Science categories.
While examining the arguments made in favor of egalitarianism, this book debunks the notion that the United States is now or has ever been a nation offering equal opportunity to all. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson famously asserted that "all men are created equal." Likewise, social mobility—the idea that any child can grow up to be president—has been key to the myth of what makes America great. Yet the hard truth is that inequality of both opportunity and resulting condition has been a defining feature of America's story. Written by a comparative labor historian, this book combines economic and social history with intellectual history to reveal the major trends of inequality that have been evident in America from Revolutionary times through the present. The book opens with an introduction to the burgeoning issue of inequality in America. The following chronological chapters describe how inequality was manifest in various periods. Each chapter not only provides a full survey of the secondary literature related to the topic of inequality in the particular time period but also examines prescriptions from thinkers who espoused equality, including Thomas Paine, Thomas Skidmore, Henry George, Jane Addams, Upton Sinclair, and Harry Caudill. By assessing these and other arguments relevant to social change, the work helps readers understand the cases made for and against equality of opportunity and condition throughout U.S. history.
The Unsustainable American State
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Author : Lawrence Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-02
The Unsustainable American State written by Lawrence Jacobs and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-02 with Political Science categories.
The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown rapidly in recent decades, but as the 2008 financial crisis revealed, the evolution of the American state has not proceeded apace. Covering the early nineteenth century to the present, The Unsustainable American State offers an unsettling account of the dysfunctionalities that accelerated the erosion of American state capacity in the post-1970s era: persistent racial division, growing economic inequality, democratic decline, and imperial overreach.
Economic Inequality And Policy Control In The United States
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Author : M. Stelzner
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-01-23
Economic Inequality And Policy Control In The United States written by M. Stelzner and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-23 with Political Science categories.
The income share of the top one percent of the population in the United States has increased from a little over nine percent of national income in the 1970s to 22.46 percent in 2012 a 144 percent increase. What is driving this astronomic growth in incomes for some? Is it possibly the result of non-meritorious forces? If so, how has this incredibly unequal development coexisted, and indeed worsened, in a political system based on equality? In Economic Inequality and Policy Control in the United States, Stelzner tackles each of these questions, and, in order to further develop understanding, Stelzner looks to the past and analyzes our experience with income inequality and the orientation of laws and institutions from the Gilded Age through the New and Fair Deal. He concludes that we have the tools to tackle inequality at present the same policies we used during the New and Fair Deal. However, in order to make change durable, we have to eliminate the undemocratic elements of our political system.
Progressive Inequality
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Author : David Huyssen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-10
Progressive Inequality written by David Huyssen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-10 with History categories.
The Progressive Era has been seen as a seismic event that reduced the gulf between America's rich and poor. Progressive Inequality cuts against the grain of this view, showing how initiatives in charity, organized labor, and housing reform backfired, reinforcing class biases, especially the notion that wealth derives from individual merit.
A Brief History Of Equality
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Author : Thomas Piketty
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-19
A Brief History Of Equality written by Thomas Piketty and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Business & Economics categories.
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Public Books Best Book of the Year “A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is here to help.” —Esther Duflo “A sustained argument for why we should be optimistic about human progress...[Piketty] has laid out a plan that is smart, thoughtful, and motivated by admirable political convictions.” —Gary Gerstle, Washington Post “Thomas Piketty helped put inequality at the center of political debate. Now, he offers an ambitious program for addressing it...This is political economy on a grand scale, a starting point for debate about the future of progressive politics.” —Michael J. Sandel, author of The Tyranny of Merit “[Piketty] argues that we’re on a trajectory of greater, not less, equality and lays out his prescriptions for remedying our current corrosive wealth disparities.” —David Marchese, New York Times Magazine It’s easy to be pessimistic these days. We know that inequality has increased dramatically over the past two generations. Its ravages are increasingly impossible to ignore. But the grand sweep of history gives us reasons for hope. In this short and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress, the world’s leading economist of inequality shows that over the centuries we have been moving, fitfully and inconsistently but inexorably, toward greater equality. Thomas Piketty guides us through the seismic movements that have made the modern world: the birth of capitalism, the age of revolution, imperialism, slavery, two world wars, and the building of the welfare state. He shows that through it all, societies have moved toward a more just distribution of income and assets, reducing racial and gender inequalities and offering greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. To keep moving, he argues, we need to commit to legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality, while resisting the temptations of cultural separatism. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. We know we can do better. But do we dare?
Making A Difference Progressive Values In Public Administration
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Author : Richard C Box
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-02-15
Making A Difference Progressive Values In Public Administration written by Richard C Box and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-15 with Business & Economics categories.
This inspirational work encourages Public Administration professionals to participate in progressive social change by advocating progressive values to counter the regressive values currently dominant in American society. The book begins with an analysis of regressive and progressive societal values, and then discusses specific actions PA practitioners, scholars, and teachers can take to build awareness and use of progressive values. The author presents regressive and progressive values in five matched pairs, each representing a continuum of thought and action: aggressiveness and cooperation; belief and knowledge; economics as end, and economics as means; great inequality and limited inequality; and Earth as resource, and Earth as home.
Small Futures
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Author : Richard H. De Lone
language : en
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Release Date : 1979
Small Futures written by Richard H. De Lone and has been published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Law categories.