Who Built America? : From 1877 to Present

by American Social History Project; Christopher Clark; Nancy A.Hewitt; Nelson Lich

• ISBN13: 9781572593039
• ISBN10: 1572593032
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-07-20
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Table of Contents

Prologue	1	(15)
part one: Monopoly and Upheaval (1877-1914)	16	(238)
Progress and Poverty: Economy, Society, and Politics in the Gilded Age (1877--1893)	20	(54)
Building a Railroad System	22	(3)
Explosive and Unstable Development	25	(2)
The Emergence of Urban-Industrial Life	27	(5)
The Remarking of the American Working Class	32	(3)
Working Conditions	35	(2)
Businessmen Seek Control	37	(4)
New Management Systems	41	(2)
Businessmen Look to Politics	43	(4)
The New South	47	(3)
Crop Liens, Debt, and Sharecropping	50	(4)
Conflict on the Plains	54	(6)
Western Farming and Ranching	60	(4)
Extractive Industries and Exploited Workers	64	(4)
Capitalism and the Meaning of Democracy	68	(2)
The Years in Review	70	(2)
Suggested Readings	72	(1)
And on the World Wide Web	73	(1)
Community and Conflict: Working People Respond to Industrial Capitalism (1877--1893)	74	(46)
Neighborhood Cultures	76	(4)
Working Women at Home	80	(2)
Religion and Community	82	(3)
The workingman's Club	85	(3)
The Labor Community	88	(2)
``Union for All'': The Knights of Labor	90	(7)
1886: The Eight-Hour Movement and Haymarket Square	97	(4)
The Decline of the Knights	101	(2)
Politics and the Workingman	103	(3)
The Rise of the AFL	106	(3)
Class Conflict in the Country	109	(3)
Bloody Battles at Homestead	112	(3)
The Years in Review	115	(2)
Suggested Readings	117	(2)
And on the World Wide Web	119	(1)
The Producing Classes and the Money Power: A Decade of Hard Times, Struggles, and Defeat (1893--1904)	120	(46)
The Depression of the 1890s	122	(2)
Workers on the March	124	(1)
Pullman: Solidarity and Defeat	125	(4)
The Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party	129	(6)
The Cross of Gold	135	(4)
Jim Crow	139	(5)
The New Immigrants	144	(5)
Nativism and Immigration Restriction	149	(1)
A Splendid Little War	149	(3)
An Overseas Empire	152	(4)
Business on the Rebound	156	(2)
Organized Labor in a Time of Recovery	158	(3)
End of a Century; End of an Era	161	(1)
The Years in Review	161	(3)
Suggested Readings	164	(1)
And on the World Wide Web	165	(1)
Change and Continuity in Daily Life (1900--1914)	166	(40)
Mass Production	169	(1)
Scientific Management	170	(2)
Welfare Capitalism	172	(3)
New Standards of Living	175	(2)
Wiring a Nation	177	(2)
Marketing to the Masses	179	(3)
Leisure Time and Public Recreation	182	(3)
Entertainment for Masses	185	(3)
Uplifting the Masses	188	(4)
White Collars and Middle-Class Values	192	(2)
Women Making Money	194	(3)
Fordism	197	(2)
Change and Continuity	199	(2)
The Years in Review	201	(3)
Suggested Readings	204	(1)
And on the World Wide Web	205	(1)
Radicals and Reformers in the Progressive Era (1900--1914)	206	(48)
Andru Karnegi and Mr. Rucevelt: Simplified Spelling and the Contours of progressivism	209	(4)
Social Settlements and Municipal Housekeeping	213	(3)
Women's Political Culture	216	(3)
Woman Suffrage	219	(2)
Factory Reform and the Conditions of Labor	221	(3)
The Garment Industry and Working Women's Activism	224	(3)
Socialists, Marxists, and Anarchists	227	(2)
Militant Communities	229	(5)
Local and State Reform Politics	234	(3)
Progressivism and Participation	237	(2)
Reform Comes to National Politics	239	(4)
The Highpoint--and the Limits--of Progressivism	243	(4)
Toward the Modern State	247	(2)
The Years in Review	249	(2)
Suggested Readings	251	(2)
And on the World Wide Web	253	(1)
part two: War, Depression, and Industrial Unionism (1914--1945)	254	(286)
Wars for Democracy (1914--1919)	258	(56)
From Assassination in the Balkans to War in Europe	260	(3)
Total War in Europe	263	(1)
American Neutrality and American Business	264	(2)
The Debate over American Involvement	266	(3)
Toward Intervention	269	(2)
Mobilizing the Home Front	271	(3)
Wartime Labor Gains	274	(2)
The Great Migration	276	(6)
Tension on the Southern Border	282	(4)
Women Workers and Women suffrage	286	(2)
Working-Class Protest and Political Radicalism	288	(4)
Repression and Nativism	292	(3)
American Troops and the Battles They Fought	295	(3)
Wilson and the Shape of the Peace	298	(3)
Postwar Strikes and Race Riots	301	(4)
The Red Scare	305	(3)
Toward a Postwar Society	308	(1)
The Years in Review	309	(2)
Suggested Readings	311	(2)
And on the World Wide Web	313	(1)
A New Era (1920--1929)	314	(52)
Conservatism and Corruption in Political Life	316	(2)
The Business of America is Business	318	(1)
The United States and the World	319	(4)
Shifts in Manufacturing	323	(1)
Economic Growth and Instability	324	(3)
Daily Life in the New Consumer Culture	327	(2)
Autos for the Masses	329	(4)
The Creation of Customers	333	(1)
Mass Culture; Radio, Music, and the Movies	334	(4)
Women as Workers and Consumers	338	(4)
Agricultural in Crisis	342	(3)
Organized Labor in Decline	345	(2)
African-American Life in the 1920s	347	(6)
Cultural Conflicts	353	(7)
Hoover and the Crash	360	(2)
The Years in Review	362	(2)
Suggested Readings	364	(1)
And on the World Wide Web	365	(1)
The Great Depression and the First New Deal (1929--1935)	366	(58)
The Onset of the Great Depression	368	(3)
Hard Times	371	(5)
Depression and Drought in the Farm Belt	376	(4)
Hoover's Response to the Crisis	380	(5)
Self-Help and Its Limits	385	(2)
Poor People's Movements	387	(5)
Roosevelt's Promise of a New Deal	392	(4)
Financial Rescue and Emergency	396	(2)
Agricultural Supports and Industrial Codes	398	(4)
The New Deal in the South and West	402	(2)
Section 7a and the Revival of Organized Labor	404	(3)
The New Union Leaders	407	(1)
A Wave of Strikes	408	(7)
The Collapse of the First New Deal	415	(1)
Populist Critics of the New Deal	416	(3)
The Years in Review	419	(2)
Suggested Readings	421	(2)
And on the World Wide Web	423	(1)
Labor Democratizes America (1935--1939)	424	(58)
An Expanded Jobs Program	425	(2)
The Social Security Act	427	(4)
The Wagner Act	431	(1)
The Committee for Industrial Organizations	432	(2)
The Roosevelt Landslide	434	(5)
The Flint Sit-Down Strike	439	(4)
Industrial Unionism at High Tide	443	(5)
Women's Place in the New Unions and the New Deal	448	(4)
The New Deal and Popular Culture	452	(7)
The African-American Struggle for Equal Rights	459	(4)
Backslash Against Labor and the New Deal	463	(4)
Defeat of the New Deal in the South	467	(4)
Labor Divided and Besieged	471	(2)
The ``Roosevelt Recession''	473	(3)
The Legacies of the New Deal and the CIO	476	(1)
The Years in Review	477	(2)
Suggested Readings	479	(2)
And on the World Wide Web	481	(1)
A Nation Transformed: The United States in World War II (1939--1946)	482	(58)
Militarism and Fascism Abroad	483	(3)
From Isolationism to Internationalism	486	(4)
The End of the New Deal	490	(3)
War in the Pacific and in Europe	493	(3)
Life in the Armed Forces	496	(7)
Mobilizing the Home Front	503	(2)
The Wartime Industrial Boom	505	(2)
Women in the Workforce	507	(4)
The Limits of Pluralism	511	(4)
Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement	515	(5)
Labor's War at Home	520	(2)
Victory in Europe	522	(3)
Japan's Surrender	525	(3)
Conversion to a Peacetime Economy	528	(7)
The Years in Review	535	(2)
Suggested Readings	537	(2)
And on the World Wide Web	539	(1)
part three: Cold War America---and After (1945--1999)	540
The Cold War Boom (1946--1960)	544	(62)
Origins of the Cold War	545	(3)
The Division of Europe	548	(3)
The Cold War In Asia	551	(4)
Labor Loses Ground	555	(4)
The 1948 Election	559	(3)
The Weapon of Anti-Communism	562	(6)
I Like Ike	568	(2)
The Postwar Economic Boom	570	(5)
A Classless Society?	575	(1)
The Labor--Management Accord	576	(5)
Flight from the Farms	581	(5)
The Growth of the service sector	586	(4)
The Decline of Ethnicity	590	(1)
Suburban America	591	(5)
The Splintering of the Working Class	596	(1)
The World of Father Knows Best	597	(4)
The Years in Review	601	(3)
Suggested Readings	604	(1)
And on the World Wide Web	605	(1)
The Rights Conscious 1960s	606	(76)
Birth of the Civil Rights Movement	608	(4)
Freedom Now!	612	(5)
The Kennedy Administration	617	(1)
The Liberal Hour	618	(4)
The War on Poverty	622	(4)
The Riots and Black Power	626	(4)
Rights Consciousness in the Workplace	630	(3)
The Road to Vietnam	633	(3)
Escalation of the Vietnam War	636	(4)
The Antiwar Movement and the New Left	640	(5)
Rise of the Counterculture	645	(4)
1968: A Watershed Year	649	(5)
The Nixon Administration	654	(3)
The Environmental Movement	657	(3)
Pluralism in American Life	660	(2)
The Women's Movement	662	(5)
Limitancy and Dissension in the Labor Movement	667	(4)
Political Polarization	671	(3)
The Watergate Crisis	674	(3)
The Years in Review	677	(2)
Suggested Readings	679	(2)
And on the World Wide Web	681	(1)
Economic Adversity Transforms the Nation (1973--1989)	682	(58)
End of the Postwar Boom	683	(5)
The New Shape of American Business	688	(2)
Stagflation Politics: From Nixon to Carter	690	(5)
The Collapse of Detente	695	(3)
Rise of the New Right	698	(2)
Revolt Against Taxes and Busing	700	(3)
Gender Politics	703	(5)
Ronald Reagan: Enter Stage Right	708	(3)
The Reagan Boom	711	(4)
The New Immigration	715	(5)
The Ranks of the Poor	720	(4)
The Labor Movement Under Fire	724	(4)
Reaganism in Triumph and at an Impasse	728	(4)
Culture Wars	732	(2)
The Reagan Legacy	734	(1)
The Years in Review	735	(3)
Suggested Readings	738	(1)
And on the World Wide Web	739	(1)
The American People in an Age of Global Capitalism (1989--2000)	740
End of the Cold War	742	(3)
George Bush's ``New World Order''	745	(4)
A New Economy	749	(7)
The 1992 Election	756	(3)
The Clinton Administration	759	(4)
Health Care Reform	763	(4)
Challenge from the Right	767	(3)
New Leadership and New Ideas for the Labor Movement	770	(4)
On Trial: Gender, Race, and National Identity	774	(4)
The Impeachment and Trial of a President	778	(3)
At the Dawn of a New Century	781	(2)
The Years in Review	783	(2)
Suggested Readings	785	(1)
And on the World Wide Web	786
appendix	A-1
index	I-1