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ISBN: 9780691169590
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Year: 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Explore the profound inquiry into the Progressive Era with *Illiberal Reformers*, a groundbreaking work by Thomas Leonard. This book delves deep into the economic progressives who critically influenced the dismantling of laissez-faire policies and the formation of the regulatory welfare state. Discover how this group, including notable figures like Richard T. Ely and John R. Commons, aimed to reform industrial capitalism, ensuring it became more humane and rational. Yet, their vision was selective.
Leonard intricately explores the duality of progress—efforts to aid some while excluding others in society, all framed under the rhetoric of advancement. He reveals the interplay between Darwinism, racial science, and eugenics, which shaped late 19th and early 20th-century scholarly and activist communities. *Illiberal Reformers* provides a critical reassessment of how these ideologies formed a controversial chapter in America's pursuit of social justice through regulation and exclusion. This essential read uncovers the moral quandaries faced by reformers, highlighting their complex legacy in the United States.
Unlock the historical significance and ethical implications of America’s welfare state as examined through Leonard’s meticulous research and compelling narrative. Perfect for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the intricate history of social reform.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780691169590
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Description:
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.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780691169590
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Explore the profound inquiry into the Progressive Era with *Illiberal Reformers*, a groundbreaking work by Thomas Leonard. This book delves deep into the economic progressives who critically influenced the dismantling of laissez-faire policies and the formation of the regulatory welfare state. Discover how this group, including notable figures like Richard T. Ely and John R. Commons, aimed to reform industrial capitalism, ensuring it became more humane and rational. Yet, their vision was selective.
Leonard intricately explores the duality of progress—efforts to aid some while excluding others in society, all framed under the rhetoric of advancement. He reveals the interplay between Darwinism, racial science, and eugenics, which shaped late 19th and early 20th-century scholarly and activist communities. *Illiberal Reformers* provides a critical reassessment of how these ideologies formed a controversial chapter in America's pursuit of social justice through regulation and exclusion. This essential read uncovers the moral quandaries faced by reformers, highlighting their complex legacy in the United States.
Unlock the historical significance and ethical implications of America’s welfare state as examined through Leonard’s meticulous research and compelling narrative. Perfect for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the intricate history of social reform.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780691169590
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Description:
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.