The struggle for America's promise : equal opportunity at the dawn of corporate capital

The struggle for America's promise : equal opportunity at the dawn of corporate capital / Claire Goldstene.

"In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations of the Gilded Age. Some proponents...

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Main Author: Goldstene, Claire
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Subjects:
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915.
Gompers, Samuel, > 1850-1924.
Goldman, Emma, > 1869-1940.
Bellamy, Edward, > 1850-1898.
Bellamy, Edward, > 1850-1898
Goldman, Emma, > 1869-1940
Gompers, Samuel, > 1850-1924
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915
1865-1918
Income distribution > United States > History.
Wealth > United States > History.
Opportunity > Economic aspects > United States > History.
Labor movement > United States > History.
Industrial relations > United States > History.
HISTORY > United States > 19th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Economic history
Income distribution
Industrial relations
Labor movement
Wealth
United States > Economic conditions > 1865-1918.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • "This haven of equal opportunity to all"
  • Equal opportunity as landownership : Booker T. Washington's Quest
  • Equal opportunity in labor : producerism and the Knights of Labor
  • Anarchism and equal opportunity : Emma Goldman in America
  • Equal opportunity remade I : Samuel Gompers and the pursuit of leisure and consumption
  • Equal opportunity remade II : business organizes
  • Edward Bellamy and the reimagining of equal opportunity.

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