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Reinventing "The People" - The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism (Paperback)
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Reinventing "The People" - The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism (Paperback)
Series: Working Class in American History
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In this much needed comprehensive study of the Progressive
movement, its reformers, their ideology, and the social
circumstances they tried to change, Shelton Stromquist contends
that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the
very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social
harmony through democratic renewal. Profiling the movement's work
in diverse arenas of social reform, politics, labour regulation and
race improvement, Stromquist argues that while progressive
reformers may have emphasized different programs, they crafted a
common language of social reconciliation in which an imagined civic
community (the People) would transcend parochial class and
political loyalties. As progressive reformers sought to reinvent a
society in which class had no enduring place, they also
marginalized new immigrants and African Americans as being
unprepared for civic responsibilities. In so doing, Stromquist
argues that Progressives laid the foundation for twentieth-century
liberals' inability to see their world in class terms and to
conceive of social remedies that might alter the structures of
class power.
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