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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Business, Politics, and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 20 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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