A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive EraSteven J. Diner, drawing on the rich scholarship of recent social history, focuses on how Americans of diverse backgrounds and at all economic levels responded to the Progressive Era. Industrial workers and farmers, recent immigrants and African Americans, white-collar workers and small entrepreneurs had to reinvent the ways they managed their work, family, community, and leisure as the forces of change swept away familiar modes of economic life, rearranged hierarchies of social status, and redefined the relationship of citizens to their government. This is a striking new interpretation of a crucial epoch in our nation's history. |
Contents
CRISIS IN THE 1890S | 14 |
OWNERS MANAGERS AND CORPORATE CAPITALISM | 30 |
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL | 50 |
IMMIGRANTS IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA | 76 |
RURAL AMERICANS AND INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM | 102 |
AFRICANAMERICANS QUEST FOR FREESOM | 125 |
WHITECOLLAR WORKERS IN CORPORATE AMERICA | 155 |
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