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Currarino, Rosanne.

The labor question in America economic democracy in the Gilded Age / [electronic resource] : Rosanne Currarino. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011. - xi, 210 p. - Working class in American history .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the labor question in the late nineteenth century -- The Cant of economy : narratives of depression in the 1870s -- Meat versus rice : anti-Chinese rhetoric and the problem of wage work -- The value of wages : historical economics and the meanings of value -- "Labor wants more!" : the AFL and the idea of economic liberty -- The end of the labor question -- Afterword : residues of the labor question.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

ISBN: 9780252090103 (electronic bk.)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Working class--History--United States--19th century.
Working class--History--United States--20th century.
Labor--History.--United States
Citizenship--United States.
Democracy--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD8072 / .C927 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 323.60973/09034