The struggle for America's promise [electronic resource] : equal opportunity at the dawn of corporate capital / Claire Goldstene.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xv, 248 pages )ISBN:- 9781626740242
- 1626740240
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- Industrial relations -- United States -- History
- Labor movement -- United States -- History
- Opportunity -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History
- Wealth -- United States -- History
- Income distribution -- United States -- History
- Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898
- Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940
- Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
- 339.2/2097309038 23
- HC105 .G65 2014
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.
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