The Resource Illiberal reformers : race, eugenics & American economics in the Progressive Era, Thomas C. Leonard
Illiberal reformers : race, eugenics & American economics in the Progressive Era, Thomas C. Leonard
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- Summary
- "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 maximumhours laws, workmen's compensation, progressive income taxes, 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. Economic progressives championed labor legislation because it would lift up the deserving poor while excluding immigrants, African Americans, women, and 'mental defectives, ' whom they vilified as low-wage threats to the American workingman and to Anglo-Saxon race integrity. Economic progressives rejected property and contract rights as illegitimate barriers to needed reforms. But their disregard for civil liberties extended much further. 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"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part I. The Progressive Ascendancy. 1. Redeeming American Economic Life
- 2. Turning Illiberal
- 3. Becoming Experts
- 4. Efficiency in Business and Public Administration
- Part II. The Progressive Paradox. 5. Valuing Labor: What Should Labor Get?
- 6. Darwinism in Economic Reform
- 7. Eugenics and Race in Economic Reform
- 8. Excluding the Unemployable
- 9. Excluding Immigrants and the Unproductive
- 10. Excluding Women
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Isbn
- 9781400874071
- Label
- Illiberal reformers : race, eugenics & American economics in the Progressive Era
- Title
- Illiberal reformers
- Title remainder
- race, eugenics & American economics in the Progressive Era
- Statement of responsibility
- Thomas C. Leonard
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
- Economic history
- Economic policy
- Economics
- Economics -- United States -- History
- Electronic books
- Eugenics
- Eugenics -- United States -- History
- Eugenik
- History
- Liberalismus
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Progressivism (United States politics) -- History
- Ausgrenzung
- Social conditions
- Sozialdarwinismus
- Sozialreform
- To 1933
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918
- United States -- Economic policy -- To 1933
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
- Wirtschaft
- Wohlfahrtsstaat
- Rassismus
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics | General
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 maximumhours laws, workmen's compensation, progressive income taxes, 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. Economic progressives championed labor legislation because it would lift up the deserving poor while excluding immigrants, African Americans, women, and 'mental defectives, ' whom they vilified as low-wage threats to the American workingman and to Anglo-Saxon race integrity. Economic progressives rejected property and contract rights as illegitimate barriers to needed reforms. But their disregard for civil liberties extended much further. 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"--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Leonard, Thomas C.
- Dewey number
- 330.973/091
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HC105
- LC item number
- .L46 2016eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- bibliography
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- Economics
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Eugenics
- United States
- United States
- United States
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
- Economic history
- Economic policy
- Economics
- Eugenics
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Social conditions
- United States
- Sozialreform
- Wohlfahrtsstaat
- Wirtschaft
- Liberalismus
- Ausgrenzung
- Rassismus
- Sozialdarwinismus
- Eugenik
- USA
- Label
- Illiberal reformers : race, eugenics & American economics in the Progressive Era, Thomas C. Leonard
- Antecedent source
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I. The Progressive Ascendancy. 1. Redeeming American Economic Life -- 2. Turning Illiberal -- 3. Becoming Experts -- 4. Efficiency in Business and Public Administration -- Part II. The Progressive Paradox. 5. Valuing Labor: What Should Labor Get? -- 6. Darwinism in Economic Reform -- 7. Eugenics and Race in Economic Reform -- 8. Excluding the Unemployable -- 9. Excluding Immigrants and the Unproductive -- 10. Excluding Women -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
- Control code
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- Isbn
- 9781400874071
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- computer
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- Other control number
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- (OCoLC)930782026
- Label
- Illiberal reformers : race, eugenics & American economics in the Progressive Era, Thomas C. Leonard
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I. The Progressive Ascendancy. 1. Redeeming American Economic Life -- 2. Turning Illiberal -- 3. Becoming Experts -- 4. Efficiency in Business and Public Administration -- Part II. The Progressive Paradox. 5. Valuing Labor: What Should Labor Get? -- 6. Darwinism in Economic Reform -- 7. Eugenics and Race in Economic Reform -- 8. Excluding the Unemployable -- 9. Excluding Immigrants and the Unproductive -- 10. Excluding Women -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
- Control code
- 930782026
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400874071
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 40025629984
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- c9e2ef21-d9ba-400e-a097-86788543f7b3
- 22573/ctvc65rtt
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- Reformatting quality
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- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)930782026
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
- Economic history
- Economic policy
- Economics
- Economics -- United States -- History
- Electronic books
- Eugenics
- Eugenics -- United States -- History
- Eugenik
- History
- Liberalismus
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Progressivism (United States politics) -- History
- Ausgrenzung
- Social conditions
- Sozialdarwinismus
- Sozialreform
- To 1933
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918
- United States -- Economic policy -- To 1933
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
- Wirtschaft
- Wohlfahrtsstaat
- Rassismus
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics | General
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