Karen Pastorello

The Progressives

Activism and Reform in American Society, 1893 - 1917

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Progressives offers comprehensive coverage of the origins, evolution, and notable events that came to define the pivotal period of American history known as the Progressive Era.

Offers a rich, in-depth analysis of who the progressives were and the process through which they identified and attacked social, economic, and political injustices
Features an up-to-date synthesis of the literature of the field including comprehensive treatment of the role of women in the Progressive Movement
Considers the movement's enduring impact - and how its vision for a better society became transfixed in the American social consciousness and helped to create the modern welfare state
Part of the well-respected American History series
Integrates themes of class, race, ethnicity, and gender throughout, offering a concise and engaging account of a fascinating era in U.S. history that forever changed the relationship between a democratic government and its citizens

Produktdetails

• The American History Series
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2014
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781118651209
• ISBN-10: 1118651200
• Artikelnr.: 39178512

Autorenporträt

Karen Pastorello is Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at Tompkins Cortland Community College (SUNY) where she directs the Honors Program. She is the author of A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Setting the Stage: The Birth of the
Progressive Impulse, 1893-1900 13 On the Farm 13 City Life 18 Hard Times:
The Depression of 1893 24 Businesses: Small to Large 26 Small businesses
evolve 26 Big business 34 Mergers and monopolies 37 Labor 38 The workplace
in transition 40 The struggle to organize 42 Working women 46 African
American workers 49 Immigrant workers 50 A New Era Dawns 51 2 Saving
Society: Who Were the Progressives? 56 The Muckrakers 57 From Religious
Roots to Secular Salvation 64 Fundamentalists 65 The Social Gospelers 66
Intellectual inspiration 67 From Charity Cases to Social Work 68 Women
Progressives 70 Club women 70 Settlement workers advocate social justice 73
Professionalization in the Progressive Era 80 Social workers 81 The medical
field 83 The legal profession 88 Engineering 89 Academia 89 The female
professions: teaching, nursing, and librarianship 91 Businessmen 93 Labor
Unions and Radical Movements 96 Other Special Interest Groups 98
Politicians and early reform 98 The "immigrant problem" 99 African
Americans 100 Nativists 101 Farmers and Rural Reform 103 3 "Constructing
the World Anew": Progressive Agency, 1900-1911 106 Stepping into a New
World: The Industrial City 106 Settlement Workers Transform the
Neighborhoods 109 Women's Political Culture Emerges 114 Jane Addams
elevates settlement activism 116 Workers on the Move 118 Health and safety
in the workplace 120 Florence Kelley and the Push for Protective
Legislation 127 Child labor 129 Educational Reform 133 Social Centers 135
The Chautauqua movement 138 Country Life Commission 139 Political Pathways
to Reform 141 Mugwumps, machine politics, and municipal reform 141 The Good
Government movement 143 Beautiful cities and urban planning: from
aesthetics to efficiency 145 State Level Reform 148 LaFollette and the
Wisconsin Idea 148 Beyond Wisconsin 150 Businessmen Left Behind 151 The
Radical Political Reaction 152 Socialists 152 Industrial Workers of the
World 153 Labor Leans Political 155 Labor's Bill of Grievances 156
Workplace activism 160 Progressivism Takes Center Stage 161 4 The Shape of
Things to Come: Progressivism and the Transition to Modern Life, 1912-1917
165 The Rise of Consumerism 165 Impact of the automobile 168 Corporate
America Takes Control 170 Scientific management 171 Welfare capitalism 173
The Triangle Waist Factory Fire 174 The legacy of Triangle 176 The Election
of 1912 178 Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party platform 180 The
incumbent: William Howard Taft 184 Eugene Debs and the Socialists 185
Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic platform 185 Wilson in the White House
186 The election of 1916 189 Progressivism in the National Consciousness
191 Conclusion: The Progressives' Progress 194 Bibliographical Essay 211
Index 247

Rezensionen

"A strong, solid, scholarly and yet completely readable and accessible book, one with immediate course adoptability."

--Richard Greenwald, St. Joseph's College
"In addition to the usual players and locales, Pastorello's account offers descriptions of rural life as well as urban, business as well as labor, New York but also Chicago and Detroit among other centers of change at the time. It is a complexly conceived, well-written and engaging account of the Progressive Era."

--Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College