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by Shelton Stromquist


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A comprehensive study of the Progressive movement, Reinventing "The People"contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social harmony through democratic renewal.

Shelton Stromquist profiles the movement's work in diverse arenas of social reform, politics, labor regulation and so-called race improvement. While these reformers emphasized different programs, they crafted a common language of social reconciliation in which an imagined civic community--"the People"--would transcend parochial class and political loyalties. But efforts to invent a society without enduring class lines marginalized new immigrants and African Americans by declaring them unprepared for civic responsibilities. In so doing, Progressives laid the foundation for twentieth-century liberals' inability to see their world in class terms and to conceive of social remedies that might alter the structures of class power.

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Stalwart labor reformer George McNeill spoke for a growing segment of working-class partisans in the 1880s who believed class conflict had become an endemic feature of industrial society and saw a war of seemingly irreconcilable class interests as inevitable.

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  • Title Reinventing the People: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism
  • Author Shelton Stromquist
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana
  • Date February 13, 2006
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780252072697 / 0252072693
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.1 x 0.66 in (22.91 x 15.49 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Progressivism (United States politics), Social reformers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005017136
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.484

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2006, Page 124

About the author

Shelton Stromquist is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Iowa. He is editor of Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context and coeditor of Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia.

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