The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age

by Rosanne Currarino

In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife. As Americans confronted the glaring disparity between democracy's promises of independence and prosperity and the grim realities of economic want and wage labor, they asked, "What should constitute full participation in American society? What standard of living should...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077865
• ISBN13: 9780252077869
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"