Speaking out for America's poor
Subtitle: a millionaire socialist in the progressive era
By: Edward Allan Brawley.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781591025511
Subjects: Social reformers -- United States -- History; Social problems -- United States -- History; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Strange bedfellows : personal and political commitment in the progressive era; title: Back home in Indiana and Chicago : radical roots; title: The settlement house movement : social dabblers and social reformers; title: Once is not enough : politics and persistence in the fight for child labor laws; title: Poverty in the midst of plenty : the first time around; title: More strange bedfellows : social prominence and social commitment; title: Embracing the cause of the workers; title: Socialist comrades-in-arms and combatants; title: Loss of faith but not of passion; title: Green pastures; title: Opposing big government : choosing the wrong side for some of the right reasons; title: Swan song of a scholar of social movements.