Roaring Metropolis : : Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State / / Daniel Amsterdam.
Debates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American governme...
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Amsterdam, Daniel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Roaring Metropolis : Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State / Daniel Amsterdam. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (240 p.) : 20 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda American Business, Politics, and Society Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. At Cross Purposes -- 2. Detroit -- 3. Philadelphia -- 4. Atlanta -- 5. Businessmen's Social Politics. Beyond the Civic Welfare State -- Epilogue. The 1930s and After -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Debates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American government was hardly so simple.Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists roughly a century ago. Far from antigovernment stalwarts, business leaders in cities across the country often advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. They championed public schooling, public health, the construction of libraries, museums, parks, and playgrounds, and decentralized cities filled with freestanding homes-a set of initiatives that they believed would foster political stability and economic growth during an era of explosive, often chaotic, urban expansion.The efforts of businessmen on this front had deep historical roots but bore the most fruit during the 1920s, an era often misconstrued as an antigovernment moment. As Daniel Amsterdam illustrates, public spending soared across urban America during the decade due in part to businessmen's political activism. With a focus on three different cities-Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta-and a host of political groups-organized labor, machine politicians, African American and immigrant activists, middle-class women's groups, and the Ku Klux Klan-Roaring Metropolis traces businessmen's quest to build cities and nurture an urban citizenry friendly to capitalism and the will of urban capitalists. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Businessmen Political activity United States History 20th century Case studies. Social change United States History 20th century Case studies. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh American History. American Studies. Business. Economics. Political Science. Public Policy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2016 9783110485189 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110665918 print 9780812248104 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292732 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812292732 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812292732.jpg |
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