The Progressives Activism and Reform in American Society, 1893 - 1917.

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Main Author: Pastorello, Karen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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505 0 |a Cover -- The American History Series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Setting the Stage: The Birth of the Progressive Impulse, 1893-1900 -- On the Farm -- City Life -- Hard Times: The Depression of 1893 -- Businesses: Small to Large -- Small businesses evolve -- Big business -- Mergers and monopolies -- Labor -- The workplace in transition -- The struggle to organize -- Working women -- African American workers -- Immigrant workers -- A New Era Dawns -- 2: Saving Society: Who Were the Progressives? -- The Muckrakers 
505 8 |a From Religious Roots to Secular Salvation -- Fundamentalists -- The Social Gospelers -- Intellectual inspiration -- From Charity Cases to Social Work -- Women Progressives -- Club women -- Settlement workers advocate to social justice -- Professionalization in the Progressive Era -- Social workers -- The medical field -- The legal profession -- Engineering -- Academia -- The female professions: teaching, nursing, and librarianship -- Businessmen -- Labor Unions and Radical Movements -- Other Special Interest Groups -- Politicians and early reform -- The "immigrant problem" -- African Americans 
505 8 |a Nativists -- Farmers and Rural Reform -- 3: "Constructing the World Anew": Progressive Agency, 1900-1911 -- Stepping into a New World: The Industrial City -- Settlement Workers Transform the Neighborhoods -- Women's Political Culture Emerges -- Jane Addams elevates settlement activism -- Workers on the Move -- Health and safety in the workplace -- Florence Kelley and the Push for Protective Legislation -- Child labor -- Educational Reform -- Social Centers -- The Chautauqua movement -- Country Life Commission -- Political Pathways to Reform -- Mugwumps, machine politics, and municipal reform 
505 8 |a The Good Government movement -- Beautiful cities and urban planning: from aesthetics to efficiency -- State Level Reform -- LaFollette and the Wisconsin Idea -- Beyond Wisconsin -- Businessmen Left Behind -- The Radical Political Reaction -- Socialists -- Industrial Workers of the World -- Labor Leans Political -- Labor's Bill of Grievances -- Workplace activism -- Progressivism Takes Center Stage -- 4: The Shape of Things to Come: Progressivism and the Transition to Modern Life, 1912-1917 -- The Rise of Consumerism -- Impact of the automobile -- Corporate America Takes Control 
505 8 |a Scientific management -- Welfare capitalism -- The Triangle Waist Factory Fire -- The legacy of Triangle -- The Election of 1912 -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party platform -- The incumbent: William Howard Taft -- Eugene Debs and the Socialists -- Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic platform -- Wilson in the White House -- The election of 1916 -- Progressivism in the National Consciousness -- Conclusion: The Progressives' Progress -- Bibliographical Essay -- Introduction -- Literature of the field -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Birth of the Progressive Impulse, 1893-1900 
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650 0 |a Progressivism (United States politics)  |x History. 
651 0 |a United States  |x History  |y 1865-1921. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Politics and government  |y 1865-1933. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Social conditions  |y 1865-1918. 
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