Securing the fruits of labor
Subtitle: the American concept of wealth distribution, 1765-1900
By: James L. Huston.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
Subjects: Income distribution -- United States -- History.; Distributive justice -- United States -- History.; Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History.
Other titles: American concept of wealth distribution, 1765-1900
Description: James Huston has undertaken a unique and Herculean labor in examining American beliefs about wealth distribution over one and a half centuries. His findings have led him to a startling conclusion: Americans' earliest economic attitudes were formed during the Revolutionary period and remained virtually unchanged until the close of the nineteenth century.

Why those attitudes existed and persisted, how they informed public debate, and what caused their ultimate demise are among the channels explored in Securing the Fruits of Labor, a grand excursion into waters of economic history only glimpsed by previous works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-469) and index.