UPC: 9780195311068 | Very Short Introductions: Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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After decades of conservative dominance the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political social and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America–its origins guiding principles major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age an era that plunged working Americans into poverty while a new class of ostentatious millionaires built huge mansions and flaunted their wealth. As capitalism ran unchecked and more and more economic power was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands a sense of social crisis was pervasive. Progressive national leaders like William Jennings Bryan Theodore Roosevelt Robert M. La Follette and Woodrow Wilson as well as muckraking journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell and social workers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald answered the growing call for change. They fought for worker s compensation child labor laws minimum wage and maximum hours legislation; they enacted anti-trust laws improved living conditions in urban slums instituted the graduated income tax won women the right to vote and laid the groundwork for Roosevelt s New Deal. Nugent shows that the progressives–with the glaring exception of race relations–shared a common conviction that society should be fair to all its members and that governments had a responsibility to see that fairness prevailed. Offering a succinct history of the broad reform movement that upset a stagnant conservative orthodoxy this Very Short Introduction reveals many parallels even lessons highly appropriate to our own time. About the Series: Combining authority with wit accessibility and style Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life s most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics from philosophy to Freud quantum theory to Islam.
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