Progressive Inequality
Subtitle: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780674281400
Subjects: Rich people; Poor, new york (state), new york; Social classes, united states; Manhattan (new york, n.y.); New york (n.y.), economic conditions; New york (n.y.), social conditions; Income distribution, united states
Description: "The Progressive Era has been depicted as a seismic event in American history -- a landslide of reform that curbed capitalist excesses and reduced the gulf between rich and poor. Progressive Inequality cuts against the grain of this popular consensus, demonstrating how income inequality's growth prior to the stock market crash of 1929 continued to aggravate class divisions...Huyssen interweaves dramatic stories of wealthy and poor New Yorkers at the turn of the twentieth century, uncovering how initiatives in charity, labor struggles, and housing reform chafed against social, economic, and cultural differences" -- Publisher's description.