Wealth Against Commonwealth
Author: first_name: Henry Demarest
last_name: Lloyd
Language: English
Year: 1894

<i>Wealth Against Commonwealth</i> documented the economic, social, and political harms of the oil and railroad monopolies during the United States Gilded Age from the 1870s to the 1890s. By concentrating and controlling large sums of wealth, power, and goods among a few corporations and industrialists, journalist and author Henry Demarest Lloyd argued monopolies threaten the well-being of society and democracy, the “common wealth.”

Through personal interviews, investigative reporting, court