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White Backlash: Immigration; Race; and American Politics

DOC White Backlash: Immigration; Race; and American Politics by Marisa Abrajano; Zoltan L. Hajnal in History

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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.


#920440 in Books 2015-03-22Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .80 x 6.40 x 9.60l; .0 #File Name: 0691164436256 pages


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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CustomerVery good book. Arguments are very current4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Three StarsBy Peter G. Wolfeinteresting idea; but too many tables and graphs which are meaningless to the layman0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Two StarsBy Austin H.boring

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