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In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic
progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the
Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of
the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize
and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic
social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and
Edward A. Ross, together with their reform allies in social work,
charity, journalism, and law, played a pivotal role in establishing
minimum-wage and maximum-hours laws, workmen's compensation,
antitrust regulation, and other hallmarks of the regulatory welfare
state. But even as they offered uplift to some, economic
progressives advocated exclusion for others, and did both in the
name of progress. Leonard meticulously reconstructs the influence
of Darwinism, racial science, and eugenics on scholars and
activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
revealing a reform community deeply ambivalent about America's
poor. Illiberal Reformers shows that the intellectual champions of
the regulatory welfare state proposed using it not to help those
they portrayed as hereditary inferiors but to exclude them.
In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic
progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the
Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of
the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize
and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic
social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and
Edward A. Ross, together with their reform allies in social work,
charity, journalism, and law, played a pivotal role in establishing
minimum-wage and maximum-hours laws, workmen's compensation,
antitrust regulation, and other hallmarks of the regulatory welfare
state. But even as they offered uplift to some, economic
progressives advocated exclusion for others, and did both in the
name of progress. Leonard meticulously reconstructs the influence
of Darwinism, racial science, and eugenics on scholars and
activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
revealing a reform community deeply ambivalent about America's
poor. Illiberal Reformers shows that the intellectual champions of
the regulatory welfare state proposed using it not to help those
they portrayed as hereditary inferiors but to exclude them.
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