Reinventing ""The People""
Subtitle: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252072697
Subjects: American history; Social theory; History; History - U.S; History: American; USA; Political History; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; United States - General; History / United States / 19th Century; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social History; United States - 19th Century; Political activity; Social classes; Social reformers; United States; Working class
First sentence: Stalwart labor reformer George McNeill spoke for a growing segment of working-class partisans in the 1880s who believed class conflict had become an endemic feature of industrial society and saw a war of seemingly irreconcilable class interests as inevitable.