In this much needed comprehensive study of the Progressive movement, its reformers, their ideology, and the social circumstances they tried to change, Shelton Stromquist contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social harmony through democratic renewal. Profiling the movement's work in diverse arenas of social reform, politics, labor regulation and 'race improvement', Stromquist argues that while progressive reformers may have emphasized different programs, they crafted a common language of social reconciliation in which an imagined civic community ('The People') would transcend parochial class and political loyalties. As progressive reformers sought to reinvent a society in which class had no enduring place, they also marginalized new immigrants and African Americans as being unprepared for civic responsibilities.In so doing, Stromquist argues that Progressives laid the foundation for twentieth-century liberals' inability to see their world in class terms and to conceive of social remedies that might alter the structures of class power.
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This review is from: Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism (Working Class in American History) (Paperback)
My students had a hard time with this book, so I wouldn't recommend it for undergraduates, but it is otherwise a crucial book for understanding the Progressive Era and its long-term significance. Stromquist takes class seriously in his analysis of the Progressives. The book is worth a read just because of that.
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Stalwart labor reformer George McNeill spoke for a growing segment of working-class partisans in the 1880s who believed class conflict had become an endemic feature of industrial society and saw a war of seemingly irreconcilable class interests as inevitable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
class bridging, class reconciliation, nonpartisan reform, shelton stromquist, settlement folk, domestic reform agenda, urban populists, female reform, second twenty years, reform community, white reformers, industrial violence, radical middle class, industrial relations commission, reform vision, female dominion, industrial conciliation, ray stannard baker, social gospelers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Florence Kelley, Civic Federation, African Americans, United States, Knights of Labor, Paul Kellogg, Democratic Party, Progressive Era, Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Walsh, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Republican Party, Supreme Court, Trade Union League, Kansas City, Lillian Wald, National Child Labor Committee, Vida Scudder, New Republic, Samuel Gompers, Social Democrats, University of Chicago, American Federation of Labor, Graham Taylor, Helen Marot New!
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Stalwart labor reformer George McNeill spoke for a growing segment of working-class partisans in the 1880s who believed class conflict had become an endemic feature of industrial society and saw a war of seemingly irreconcilable class interests as inevitable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
class bridging, class reconciliation, nonpartisan reform, shelton stromquist, settlement folk, domestic reform agenda, urban populists, female reform, second twenty years, reform community, white reformers, industrial violence, radical middle class, industrial relations commission, reform vision, female dominion, industrial conciliation, ray stannard baker, social gospelers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Florence Kelley, Civic Federation, African Americans, United States, Knights of Labor, Paul Kellogg, Democratic Party, Progressive Era, Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Walsh, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Republican Party, Supreme Court, Trade Union League, Kansas City, Lillian Wald, National Child Labor Committee, Vida Scudder, New Republic, Samuel Gompers, Social Democrats, University of Chicago, American Federation of Labor, Graham Taylor, Helen Marot New!
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