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EBOOK Progressivism:A Very Short Introduction
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199745852
EAN: 1F94F5E0EB
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Stron: 160
Data wydania: 2009
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After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal        the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role        has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America?This very        timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in        America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A        many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s,        progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that        plunged working Americans into poverty while a new class of ostentatious        millionaires built huge mansions and flaunted their wealth. As capitalism ran        unchecked and more and more economic power was concentrated in fewer and fewer        hands, a sense of social crisis was pervasive. Progressive national leaders like        William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Woodrow        Wilson, as well as muckraking journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and        social workers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald answered the growing call for        change. They fought for worker's compensation, child labor laws, minimum wage and        maximum hours legislation; they enacted anti-trust laws, improved living conditions        in urban slums, instituted the graduated income tax, won women the right to vote,        and laid the groundwork for Roosevelt's New Deal. Nugent shows that the        progressives--with the glaring exception of race relations--shared a common        conviction that society should be fair to all its members and that governments had a        responsibility to see that fairness prevailed.Offering a succinct history of the        broad reform movement that upset a stagnant conservative orthodoxy, this Very Short        Introduction reveals many parallels, even lessons, highly appropriate to our own        time.

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