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Reinventing The People: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism

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Description for Reinventing The People: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism Paperback. Offers a study of the Progressive movement, its reformers, their ideology, and the social circumstances they tried to change. This book contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social harmony through democratic renewal. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.

A comprehensive study of the Progressive movement, Reinventing "The People"contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social harmony through democratic renewal. 

Shelton Stromquist profiles the movement's work in diverse arenas of social reform, politics, labor regulation and so-called race improvement. While these reformers 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. But efforts to invent a society without enduring class lines marginalized new immigrants and African Americans by declaring them unprepared for civic responsibilities. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Series
The Working Class in American History
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252072697
SKU
V9780252072697
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About Shelton Stromquist
Shelton Stromquist is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Iowa. He is editor of Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context and coeditor of Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia.

Reviews for Reinventing The People: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism
"Reinventing 'The People' is the clearest, most focused synthesis on Progressivism to appear in recent years. For those coming to the book from a labor history background, it will most likely reinforce conclusions already made. But for those historians with other specialties, the volume should stir a rethinking of the movement. . . . This is a book that should be ... Read more

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