{"product_id":"the-long-gilded-age-9780812224139","title":"The Long Gilded Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The still-growing nation established economic, political, and cultural entanglements with forces overseas. Local strikes in manufacturing, urban transit, and construction placed labor issues front and center in political campaigns, legislative corridors, church pulpits, and newspapers of the era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Long Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e considers the interlocking roles of politics, labor, and internationalism in the ideologies and institutions that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century. Presenting a new twist on central themes of American labor and working-class history, Leon Fink examines how the American conceptualization of free labor played out in iconic industrial strikes, and how freedom in the work\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Long Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e] reflects the author's long consideration and detailed knowledge of foundational developments in United States capitalism and culture during the final decades of the nineteenth century.\" * \u003ci\u003eEnterprise \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Leon Fink shakes up understandings of U.S. history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-his Long Gilded Age-with unique attention to and global perspective on the contradictions of free labor ideology, the resolution of labor disputes in an age of epic strikes, and the youth culture of American socialism. \u003ci\u003eThe Long Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e is ready-made for pitched discussion, as it speaks trenchantly to our own times.\" * Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003e\"A splendid historical analysis of how, in light of what we know about the world in the early twenty-first century, we might reconsider the history of that forty-year era of industrial conflict and tepid reform that the author labels the Long Gilded Age.\" * Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The American Ideology\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Great Strikes Revisited\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The University and Industrial Reform\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Labor's Search for Legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Coming of Age in Internationalist Times\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405705388375,"sku":"9780812224139","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812224139.jpg?v=1730493342","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-long-gilded-age-9780812224139","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}