Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917

by Elizabeth Sanders

Book Overview

Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over private economic power. She demonstrates that farmers from the South, Midwest, and West reached out to the urban laborers who shared their class position and their principal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226734773
• ISBN13: 9780226734774
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"