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Goldstene, Claire.

The struggle for America's promise equal opportunity at the dawn of corporate capital / [electronic resource] : Claire Goldstene. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014] - 1 online resource (xv, 248 pages ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.

"This haven of equal opportunity to all" -- Equal opportunity as landownership : Booker T. Washington's Quest -- Equal opportunity in labor : producerism and the Knights of Labor -- Anarchism and equal opportunity : Emma Goldman in America -- Equal opportunity remade I : Samuel Gompers and the pursuit of leisure and consumption -- Equal opportunity remade II : business organizes -- Edward Bellamy and the reimagining of equal opportunity.

ISBN: 9781626740242 1626740240

Subjects--Personal Names:
Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898.
Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940.
Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Subjects--Topical Terms:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Industrial relations--History.--United States
Labor movement--History.--United States
Opportunity--Economic aspects--History.--United States
Wealth--History.--United States
Income distribution--History.--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HC105 / .G65 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 339.2/2097309038