Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Pove

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Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age

History > United States - 19th Century

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PublisherColumbia University Press
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780231120012
PublishedFeb 18 2022
Dimension8.9 X 6 X 0.9 inches
Weight 1.15 pounds
BISACHistory > United States - 19th Century
Categories(Single Author) Asian American
LanguageEnglish

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America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today.

Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization.

Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age

History > United States - 19th Century

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