Roots of reform : farmers, workers, and the American state, 1877-1917
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Roots of reform : farmers, workers, and the American state, 1877-1917
（American politics and political economy）
University of Chicago Press, 1999
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 421-510
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Offers a revision of the understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late 19th century. Elizabeth Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over private economic power. She demonstrates that farmers from the south, midwest and west reached out to the urban labourers who shared their class position and their principal antagonist - northeastern monopolistic industrial and financial capital - despite weak electoral support from organized labour. Based on evidence from legislative records and other sources, Sanders shows that this tenuous alliance of "producers versus plutocrats" shaped early regulatory legislation, remained powerful through the populist and progressive eras, and developed a characteristic method of democratic state expansion with continued relevance for subsequent reform movements.
Table of Contents
Contents 1. Introduction Part 1: The Political Economy 2. Core and Periphery in the American Economy 3. Labor Organizations and the State, 1873-1912 4. Farmers in Politics, 1872-1896 5. Agrarian Politics and Parties after 1896 Part 2: The Agrarian Statist Agenda 6. The Transportation System 7. Trade, Taxation, Banking, and Credit 8. Antitrust and the Structure of the Marketing Network 9. Federal Aid for Practical Education: Farmers First 10. The Labor Program of the Farmers' Party 11. Farmers, Workers, and the Administrative States 12. Conclusion Notes Index
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