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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Young, Ralph

Titel

Progressives and Radicals

Ist Teil von

• Dissent, 2015, p.294-326

Ort / Verlag

United States: NYU Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite the glittering wealth of the nation at the turn of the century and the rise of a middle class, millions of Americans lived in abject poverty. (The wealthiest 10 percent of the population owned 72 percent of the nation’s wealth; the top 1 percent owned nearly a third.) While rich industrialists and investors lived lives of opulent splendor, the people who worked for them barely eked out a living. Whether they were newly arrived immigrants or long-established citizens, unskilled workers toiled intolerably long hours for intolerably low wages, they were crammed into squalid urban slums, and there was little