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  • The Long Gilded Age

  • American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
  • By: Leon Fink
  • Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
  • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

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By: Leon Fink
Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
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Summary

From the end of the 19th century through the first decades of the 20th, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The still-growing nation established economic, political, and cultural entanglements with forces overseas. Local strikes in manufacturing, urban transit, and construction placed labor issues front and center in political campaigns, legislative corridors, church pulpits, and newspapers of the era.

The Long Gilded Age considers the interlocking roles of politics, labor, and internationalism in the ideologies and institutions that emerged at the turn of the 20th century. Presenting a new twist on central themes of American labor and working-class history, Leon Fink examines how the American conceptualization of free labor played out in iconic industrial strikes and how "freedom" in the workplace became overwhelmingly tilted toward individual property rights at the expense of larger community standards. He investigates the legal and intellectual centers of progressive thought, situating American policy actions within an international context.

The Long Gilded Age offers both transnational and comparative looks at a formative era in American political development, placing this tumultuous period within a worldwide confrontation between the capitalist marketplace and social transformation.

©2015 University of Pennsylvania Press (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks
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  • Categories: History
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" The Long Gilded Age is ready-made for pitched discussion, as it speaks trenchantly to our own times." (Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania)
"A splendid historical analysis." (Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara)

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