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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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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