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Progressive Inequality
Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920
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David Huyssen
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
The Progressive Era has been seen as a seismic event that reduced the gulf between America's rich and poor. Progressive Inequality cuts against the grain of this view, showing how initiatives in charity, organized labor, and housing reform backfired, reinforcing class biases, especially the notion that wealth derives from individual merit.
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Huyssen David :
David Huyssen teaches history at Yale University.
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Progressive Inequality puts a stake through the heart of the pernicious myth of classlessness. Writing with passion and empathy, Huyssen recognizes class as the dominant feature of the American experience, enacted most vividly in the collision of rich and poor at the soup kitchen, in the settlement house, and on the street corner. If our own current Gilded Age gives way to a new Progressive Era, we must be prepared to think with Huyssen about class as an artifact of pervasive inequality, and perhaps more hopefully, as its antidote.
-- Seth Rockman, author of Scraping By
-- Seth Rockman, author of Scraping By
Huyssen’s close analysis of encounters across the class divide in Progressive Era New York suggests that the inequities and inequalities inherited from the Gilded Age handily survived—and were even reinforced by—various efforts at reform. He offers fresh, sophisticated readings of an assortment of inter-class collaborations and confrontations. Highly recommended.
-- Mike Wallace, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Gotham
-- Mike Wallace, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Gotham
[Huyssen] argues engagingly that despite three decades of hopeful reform activism and regulatory innovation, ‘inequality between rich and poor became more, not less acute, all the way up to the stock market crash of 1929.’
-- Sam Roberts New York Times
-- Sam Roberts New York Times
Progressive Inequality provides a rich portrayal of the dynamics of cross-class interaction in turn-of-the-century New York, and convincingly demonstrates the many ways in which charitable aid subverted its ostensible commitment to redressing inequality…Progressive Inequality provides a convincing rebuke of ‘the myth of classless democracy.’
-- Angus Burgin Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
-- Angus Burgin Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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March 10, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9780674419520
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388
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8 halftones
eBook ISBN:
9780674419520
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Professional and scholarly;
