The labor question in America [electronic resource] : economic democracy in the Gilded Age / Rosanne Currarino.

By: Currarino, RosanneContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Working class in American historyPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011Description: xi, 210 pISBN: 9780252090103 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Working class -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Labor -- United States -- History | Citizenship -- United States | Democracy -- United States | United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.60973/09034 LOC classification: HD8072 | .C927 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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